The Artist’s Poem
By Rain Bodine
The Artist’s Way ©2012 Author: Rain Bodine ISBN - 1-173944841
Preface: The Artist’s Poem combines imagery and verse to help the audience acknowledge their own natural creative abilities. This book can be used as an educational resource as well as an inspirational piece that encourages everyone to connect with their inner creativity and acknowledge their own individual potential.
So you are an
ART IST !
You were from theST ART. You’re on a Journey of one Who is
SPECIAL and SMART.
What is ART, you may ask? Well, it’s part of your SOUL. It’s the thing inside you that no one CONTROLS. ow you express h l s w e h ’ a t you see and fe t I Your
ART is your CREATION – IMAGINED OR REAL.
As
t r o p m I
Why
o an ARTIST you have d d n tant things to say a
y are they important?
BECAUSE THEY’RE FROM YOU!
Remember those first HAND PRINTS you made-
s e e aside Sandpainting h t d n A s by the Ocean
How proud you were of your Mud Pie Masterpieces
That changed with the TIDE and your summer EXPERIENCES.
? d e y a displ
S P A H R E OR P ou r
ecall t hos e Pu pp et P g the most ou n i g l n a i s ys and d t s n t Backyard Balle andin A g,
y
origin a
HAPPY B S Y I A R D T H Maybe your talents were nourished in the kitchen ... c u o o o y k e d e up a S Wher TORM
l
R LICKIN’ O F S L W O B E AND SAVED TH
et s
S.
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Did your ARTISTIC start begin in the dirt,
Where you Befriended the Worms and nourished the earth?
Or was your ARTISTRY based on a scientific fascination
When you discovered details from n
? n o i t a v r natural obse
Perhaps you were IMPRESSED by the strut of the feline Considered the question of “What is a Beeline?” Or were you the first in class to dare to COMBINE
A D O K T L S O i n P your d n PINS a Dog TR IP E S Ha
at De si
gns
?
Wh
n
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It’s a personal place that you create Inspired by the dreams you cultivate
A space to converse with your inner muse And help decipher the direction you choose
O I N S you have I V e O is a R D Th N O W You can use it to do almost anything
HOW YOU WILL USE IT?
N I H T
Why that’s up t
You’ve got a great start!
h w a t will w o N you d
OUS NG
to you -
do?
Will you DESI Or CR
Per m haps a r you will learn to F
IGN Buildings or Billboards? REATE programs with Keyboards?
S Y o u e t e a , h W e m
. A E S E Yo H T E U u m ay C S E initiate change and R
Or mayb e you’ll travel an d observ e the world ’s beauty an d woe. Make Great Friends and perhaps foster some foe.
T C E L F RE , B R l, l O i w u o ABS y f i D N O P S E R d n a
n o i vis
s ’ t s i K t S r A d n n a a E th C i I T W of
S U J
. IL L
There will be times when you are lost and confused. It’s OK! Believe in yourself when you’re feeling bemused.
This journey you’re on has its twists and its turns, It may even go backwards -
. s ’ h t a N h o w you mi R t A E ght L
You have What things is to great contribute, about you’re Art creative is it’s and not brightwrong or right
Folks may make judgments, but it’s not BLACK or WHITE,
It is just a fine way to bring IDEAS to LIGHT.
So you are an
ARTIST!
That’s right, it is t
ur do. o y h g u u o o y r t h a t h t s l l E ow a h D n s i I S S It N N I O y l I t T f o s AC D t i U y O a L s Now ll it out e y r o
e b and ! D OU
PR
true!
The Artist’s Poem
Rain Joy Bodine lives in rural Colorado with her handsome hunter husband, two active boys, a couple of Mopish Dogs and 500 wonderful art students! She uses her family and surroundings as inspiration for many of her paintings on silk. This is her first illustrated book.