Your Assignment: Take a moment, close your eyes and reflect on recent blessings and struggles experienced this spring or so far this summer. Sketch or write those down.
Now review what you’ve remembered. Place a star next to the one that speaks most to you. Use this as the basis of a poem, short story, free-write, sketch, picture book, song, etc. Select the method that best resonates with your experience and create! Feel free to share some of your work in the comments if you’d like.
Last month, I was able to travel to Italy. Many of the “blessings” that I wrote down were how grateful I am for the artists who lived during the Renaissance, especially Michelangelo.
Michelangelo
The artist who can instill a sense of awe.
Terribilita.
The Sistine Chapel, The Last Judgment, The David.
Frescos of faded orange, green, yellow, and blue hues.
The Sistine Chapel, The Last Judgment, The David.
Frescos of faded orange, green, yellow, and blue hues.
Muscles, "bizarro e fantastic" critics called him.
We gaze, we ponder, we stare.
He frequently withdrew from company of others.
He was a lone artist, and wrote sonnets.
The Pieta, commissioned by the French Cardinal, and Michelangelo, only 25 or 26!
Nine months to choose just the right Carrara marble for the youthful Mary holding her son, The Christ.
The marble, luminous. The fresco, evanesce. And sonnets.
I gaze, I ponder, I stare.
Magnificent.
He frequently withdrew from company of others.
He was a lone artist, and wrote sonnets.
The Pieta, commissioned by the French Cardinal, and Michelangelo, only 25 or 26!
Nine months to choose just the right Carrara marble for the youthful Mary holding her son, The Christ.
The marble, luminous. The fresco, evanesce. And sonnets.
I gaze, I ponder, I stare.
Magnificent.
