It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
Today the true winter palette of Iceland was revealed. The color and mood of this day are captured in Wallace Stevens’ poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Here is the link to the whole poem…I’ll wait while you go read it.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stevens-13ways.html
Now you know what kind of a dream state I was in all day as I worked in the studio. This is the mountain behind the farm, Laugarvatnsfjall, 16 x 20
And a view across the fields from the window of the library in town, about 8×11
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Wonderful colours… I love that phrase “the true winter palette of Iceland”!
And to cap off a wonderful day, the Northern Lights lit up the sky tonight, a marvel.
Lucky you,how wonderful… will that be captured on canvas? When i went it was misty the whole time, didn’t spoil my enjoyment but I didn’t see the Lights… next time!!
Definitely, there will be a next time.
Not sure yet if that ephemeral image will translate to canvas, but I’m preserving that memory in my mind’s eye, to be sure.
Laugarvatnsfjall painting is stunning. Love it.
Thanks, Lisa. I’m sending out the KS sketch cards this week, so I’ll send you one of the Laugarvatnsjall sketches as a souvenir!
Lovely all around. Wonderful painting, great poem and northern lights… wow
Lovely all around, wonderful painting, interesting poem and the northern lights. what an adventure.
Thanks, Noelle, so nice to hear from you via this blog and FB
These are great. Love the depth and the plasticity. Great work. Enjoy your stay!
Thank you. I am thinking of driving back to Jokulsarlon to do more painting there for a day or 2, and maybe stop over in the Westman Islands for a night, have you been there?
Yes, I visited both, Jökulsárlon and Westman Islands. I have to say Westman Islands wasn’t my favorite place in Iceland. 😉 But maybe it’s yours. So go for it!
Just that I have seen some beautiful landscape paintings from the islands. Sveinsdottir_Juliana-Fra_Vestmannaeyjum_Elli_aey_.jpg Would love to walk in these footsteps!
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Thanks!
Thanks for all of your great comments!
Northern Lights, you lucky dog!!! But I wanted to say, thanks for reminding me about the W. Stevens blackbirds… I love that printed folio you did so long ago, with all of those birds. Have you seen a proper Icelandic hrafn yet? Huge, with all- knowing eyes … You can see why Odin had these birds sitting on his broad shoulders.
I have seen the Hrafn, they are so big and black, you can hear their feathers creaking as they work their wings. Some different kinds of geese, some swanlike white ones, and some buff colored geese grazing in the buff colored fields.