The Kiss

The Kiss

The Kiss is a watercolor that I painted yesterday. The characters of focus in this painting are two trees.  I am fascinated with trees. Trees hold all the knowledge in the world. As they stand guard over a neighborhood, forest, city town, they are witness to all the comings and goings of man. The things a tree must see totally intrigues me. So it is with my “Lady Tree” she is my queen, what I long to be.
A couple of months ago I began painting her as I painted my dear friend and step-mom’s Christmas gift. It was a simple tree with dogwood blossoms and the sign of life, renewal, and friendship at the core. As I witness her emerge, there she was in the midst of the design a graceful lady. Just like Nancy, graceful, non-waivering, consistenct, strong, proud beautiful.
Later that day, I painted a smaller version of the original painted for her. From that I created a summer, fall and winter version of the same tree. I was transfixed as I without intent created the tree morphing through the stages of a woman’s life. Someday I will reproduce that for you my reader to see. Until then, I merely use the forward of this blog as a introduction to my Valentine present to myself. The Kiss.
The Kiss was painted yesterday to honor Klimt’s The Kiss. I love that painting. Every Valentine’s day I cast my sights back to any pictures on-line that I can find of it. So, it is that I decided to create a nature’s kiss. The Kiss by M.E.LaLuna as featured at the beginning of this blog takes the lady and shows her gracefully dancing with her lover, hands entwined.
Love is nature’s dance. A Lady full of grace, stands watch over lovers and dreamers.

Welcome back ME!

Sounds silly, but the title is exactly what it is a welcome back to ME.  I am reviving, or attempting to revive my desire to be a blogger. You see, not just any ole’ blogger, but a soap blogger.  I love to get on my soap box.  In the grand ole’ style of soap boxing, I seek to establish the ME soapblog.  That is why I have established my own ezine, why I will establish my own radio show, why I have taken up painting, why I do pretty much everything that I do.  I like to walk the walk of self-reliance. 

Thus far my endeavors have left penniless and constantly dreaming, but when the day is done, and I drift off to sleep, I can say, “I did it my way!”  That is not to suggest to anyone that would read my babbling as a representation of the way, but, if for even the slightest moment, I give you the reader the impression that “I got it” then well, I have given you a window into my own desired understanding of ME!

Welcome aboard!  February issue of ArtSeesDiner is just around the corner where we will understand such things as, why Bob counts “Another One Bites the Dust” is a love song.