Nightfall View From a Kayak, Watercolor by Cheryl R. Long

Painting en Plein Air

My turquoise tangerine
washes cerise chartreuse
in the frangible
orange
new gamboge
light
of the pear-shaped afternoon.

–Sandy Brown Jensen
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Welcome!

Inspired by +Beth Camp, who is doing the October One Poem a Day 

Writing Month, I am teaching a creative writing class in poetry 

Winter 2014 for Lane Community College, so I am beginning to blog 

more poetry to get back into practice.

I follow a website called The Daily Create, and today the creative 

challenge is:

“Find a website with descriptive names for colors; write a story
or poem using at least 5 of those names.”

My poem is drawn from looking at my sister +Cheryl Renee Long's

favorite painting practice, which is outdoors--a practice 

called painting en plein air.

She and I both love a color called New Gamboge, which looks 

like this:

New Gamboge

You can see her effective use of it in the painting above, 

"Nightfall View From a Kayak."