Grass

Isaiah speaking about 745 BC:

‘ The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.’

Isaiah 40:8

Then

Here is Peter speaking about 700 years later: ‘ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower fades. But the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached to you.’

1Peter 1:24,25

Then Isaiah continues towards the end of the chapter and says these encouraging words:

‘ He/ God gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might He giveth strength.’

Isaiah 40:29

Isaiah and Peter in their different times, were talking about God and us with so much time in between. Do we continue to see it that way?

After a cadmium yellow mixed with yellow ochre summer lawn, we now have a Phthalo green welcome for the windfall apples.

Yesterday or was it the day before sometimes days merge, I have had this experience when young and now it is happening again. Well, it happened that Roy cut the grass because there was enough to cut and it was soft and a little wet! The field grass is tall and has gone to seed and I guess it will be cut soon.

Unsurprisingly then with a lot of yellow and now green in our world I started to prepare the background to my painting.  I let it dry and then painted the small side flowers from the single sunflower and the seed cases of the summer foxgloves with the ever-abundant calendulas not leaving out the ceris/pink/ deep brown of the Sedums. These I had put in a ‘pitcher’, yesterday and they are all included in acrylic ochre, yellow greens etc in this painting.

Knowing when to stop is an interesting concept. I painted yesterday then looked at the painting today and couldn’t resist doing more. I think I should have left it. You can see it as it was yesterday.

Here are two quotes one by Bill Crawford and the other by Lillian Hellman:

‘ Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.’

And

‘ You don’t always know how to do things when they’re happening. ‘

Take care,

Sandy 🙂