Kitty Heaven - painting

8" x 10" acrylic on canvas board

(California) Spring Sky

8" x 10" acrylic on canvas board

Poem - Acumen for Making Art

Acumen for Making Art

Focus for production requiring self-discipline

But creativity begs letting go to just a bit of sin

Or does it really for; isn't there a part of the mind

That delivers reward without stepping out of line?

This is the creativity I am seeking to manifest

As my own reflections of who I am is the test

Now the true mental measurement is designed

By the process of my creations that I find

Therefore, perhaps the focus is just immersion

For the sake of my psychological diversion

And patting my own back for doing my best

For my measures are the only scale of my test

The product is only a symbol of my experience

If you recognize it consider your own abstinence

And in your rumination, be it similar or poles apart

Consider this as a reason that we make and value art

Poignacy for a poem

Poignancy

By, C. Heidi Drew

April 9, 2012 (Easter)

Something pertinent to my experience

Emotionally revealing and sharing

But, still all my own personal sense

Sonorous words with ideas not sparing

Prattling and babbling along like a brook

Until ideas become pedestrian and convoluted

A story completed before the end of the book

The reason is lost and purpose polluted

One's life is defined by others commentary

We can not control the expositions told

Authenticity is individual yet extraordinary

Why we search for an idea of God as gold

How art and creation has become what I seek

Is gold the mission of these arts I create?

Should God listen when my arts speak?

If others don't care, should I hesitate?

Strong emotions of all sorts I hope to evoke

Laughter and beauty is my joyous result

Positive needs the adverse for results to provoke

Fe and male together creates a child then adult

Not a dolt though this is rather potential

Another marker and maker in the amaranthine

In time unknowing of an ending is essential

Shocking and evocative getting under the skin

Current's embroidered birth gift

Front

Year of the Dragon(fly)
back

Jessica's 33rd birthday card