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Copyright 2011 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved

My Last Roses (Mother’s Day 2009)

I had no child anymore;
you never made to gift me well,
but on that day you brought me these,
all stained with blues and cream and pink.

I could not parse the meaning here,
why you would spend so lavishly,
but I was grateful and surprised
and kissed you, blushing like a girl.

It’s only now that time has flown
and I look here, at roses caught
in that brief moment, I can see
the message you conveyed with these.

For white in roses means a death,
and death indeed was what you brought
for one year’s grace before you left,
a measure of your cruelty.
~ copyright 2011 RC deWinter

Digital oils; taken from an original photograph shot May 10, 2009.

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Hello and welcome to my portfolio on Pixels/Fine Art America. One of my major artistic goals, with appropriate images, is to create digital paintings that you wouldn't know were digital unless I told you. If I could paint in oils I would...alas my eyes don't work with my hand, so I create most of my art from photographs that I re-imagine. Few of my digital paintings resemble the original photographs very much when I am finished with my vision. Of course I also create work that is clearly digital as well. Here's a bit about me: RC...