Choose a painting. Look a while. Write what it gives you.
Today’s paintings
Saint Jerome and the Lion
Master I.B. with the Bird (Giovanni Battista Palumba)
Snow at Akabane Bridge in Shiba (Shiba Akabane no yuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)"
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎
A Recollection of Stevington, Bedfordshire–A Spinney in December
William Fraser Garden
The Poet's Garden
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
York Harbor, Coast of Maine
Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)
On the Nile
Eugène Fromentin (French, 1820-1876)
Love of Winter
George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
Flower Clouds
Odilon Redon
Moonrise
George Inness (American, 1825–1894)
The Girl by the Window
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944)
Flower Girl in Holland
George Hitchcock