Spacious Skies
by Bonnie Mason
Title
Spacious Skies
Artist
Bonnie Mason
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The challenge in this painting was to express the shadows of the clouds on the trees and land while still showing the brightness of the light reflecting into them.
Bland County, Virginia is one of my favorite places to paint and has many uniquely beautiful views. This is one of my favorites because of the unique shapes of the land and wide open spacious feeling. It makes me think of my favorite patriotic song, humor me as I quote the words of Katherine Lee Bates' "America the Beautiful". It's good to read them and think of how they apply to our world today.
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!
O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!
O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
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Comments (142)
Sunil Kapadia
Wow! So amazing! So reminiscent of our landscapes in October. Marvelous color rendering! L/F
Hanne Lore Koehler
Magnificent landscape painting, Bonnie! Beautiful rolling hills, mountains and sky in this wonderful composition! L/F