Sometimes it’s mud
Sometimes it’s stone
Some comes from long dead
Egyptian king’s bones
Which then may be mixed
With the sweat of crushed flax
And thinned with pine resin
Or thickened with wax.
It’s slathered on fabric
Coated with collagen
Of boiled bunny rabbits
(Who will not hop again)
And it somehow pulls out
Bright new worlds from the cloth
Landscapes and portraits
And abstracts and froth.
Luminous, glorious
This tint without taint
Is my greatest obsession:
A glob of oil paint.
Fantastic, Ampy! You had me guessing until the end!
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Can you believe they used to make the color asphaltum (a dark brown) by mixing mummy bones with linseed or almond oil?
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