corner view~anything goes

I made this painting a few years ago, after a ten year hiatus from painting.  I woke up one morning with Shawn still a baby and decided if I didn't paint then, I might never paint again.  Later when Shawn was taking a nap, I grabbed our art supplies, and I included my girls that day along with our babysitter, Annie.  They each made their own paintings, and we all had so much fun.  

This painting came from that day.  I worked in warm colors, which was new for me.  

I really love how it turned out, like a rosebud waiting to blossom, but beautiful as it is.  Isn't that the goal?  To be happy with the process of our lives, and enjoy every stage, including the rosebud stages?

It is for me.

This painting was then chosen to be in a book about artists who are also poets.  I also had some poetry published.  I will share one of the poems, written about our son when he was a baby.

First Boy

My wondrous child

with bright red wavy hair

resembles the great grandfather

he never knew-

who tinkered and built

gadgets of all sorts.

"A man needs a workbench"

was his motto.

This boy is on a mission.

Just today,

he unloaded the dishwasher,

drawers and all,

pulled a painting off the wall,

and joyously dumped

a box of three hundred toothpicks

on the kitchen floor.

Someday he will learn

from his grandfather

how to repair a door hinge,

refinish an antique,

grow a green lawn.

He may build a rock path, a fence,

and maybe, just maybe,

fix something for me.

This is the book.

Thanks to Ninja, for this idea.  Next week's theme is "taking a different perspective" and it comes from Dana.  And please feel free to leave me ideas for more corner views.  I like to include you all in this, if possible.