“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
–
Isak Dinesen
Three Tulips
4″ x 6″ Mixed Media
When I painted this, I loaded it with lots of color with watercolor! It was flat and stripedy. (yes, I said stripedy… he he) I came back and brushed on bits of white and pale colored acrylic. I liked it much better. No more stripedy!
About Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen was the pen name of
Karen Blixen, the Danish author famously portrayed by Meryl Streep in the film of her best-selling memoir,
Out of Africa. She was born near
Copenhagen in 1885. In 1914, she and her new husband moved to
Kenya to run a coffee plantation. She stayed on after divorcing her husband ten years later, living an unusually independent life. Her book of stories,
Seven Gothic Tales, sold well, but
Out of Africa made her a worldwide success. She died in 1962.
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