something new....

Shadows of Paris
24"x 36"
acrylic pigments on
canvas.

This is my first post after a year...( a new painting, it took a long time)
 I decided to step away for a while...
Still painting...

new website :
http://www.erikabunda.com

APRIL

APRIL

The art exhibit went well in Washington DC.
it was extended into ApriL.

:)

Paintings at an Exhibition...

If you happen to be in Washington  DC during the month of March, 3 of my paintings
are on display at the Tubman Mahan Gallery.
Check it out!

http://centerforgreenurbanism.org/

ISIS

22" x 28"

acrylic on canvas


A feeling of
Spring in the air?

Rendezvous

16"x20"acrylic on canvas

Adagio

Summer still lingering
in the Smokies...


Adagio, a tempo marking indicating that music is to be played slowly...


Adagio
one of my original paintings
inspired by Mozart's violin
sonatas.
20 x24 inch.
Acrylic on canvas

Erika Morrison

Wish you a
beautiful September...

Hope

Original painting
22x28 inches
acrylic on canvas


                                                           This painting was


inspired by a poem :


HOPE


High atop a mountain
she sits in gentle conversation with the wind


A child of the earth
she glows with love
and grows like the flowers
more beautiful each day


She wispers to the wind
for at the point in the sky
where the moon begins to mingle
with the clouds
the evenings first star is visible

the wind softly replies...


by Lance Bunda.




Dreamy art 4x6 mni~print
suitable for standard frame.
Available at
 http://www.lancerika.etsy.com/

Pitcairn Island

This painting was inspired by the movie *Mutiny on the Bounty*.
The film was one of the biggest hits of its time. Although its historical accuracy has been questioned (inevitable as it is based on a novel about the facts, not the facts themselves), film critics consider this adaptation to be the best cinematic work inspired by the mutiny.
The HMS Bounty was burned on a small bay( you can see it in the painting) to avoid being detected

by other ships.
There are several versions of this film since the original back 1935.
Many books had been written on this most famous mutiny ever.


 Pitcairn is the least populous and most remote jurisdiction in the world,a little group of islands in the south Pacific Ocean.
Today’s Pitcairn Island population is descended from British sailors and Tahitians. The mutineers of the HMS Bounty settled the island [first discovered by world explorers on 2 July 1767 by midshipman Pitcairn aboard the HMS Swallow] in 1790, along with their Tahitian women and a few Tahitian men. Fletcher Christian and his band of mutineers seized the Bounty from Captain William Bligh on 28 April 1789 following a voyage filled with disrespect and frequent, sometimes severe, punishments from Bligh toward his crew.

Loket Castle

Original painting
by Erika Morrison
24"x36" acrylic
on canvas.

                                                   

Dark Romance

within these

Castle walls...

                                                       



North Carolina Fog...

An original painting
by Erika Morrison
24"X 30"
acrylic on canvas

                           

SHIMMERING DREAM

CRYSTAL LUCID LOVER
YOU TOUCH
EMBRACE ME IN MY DREAMS

THOUGH AWAKE
I CANNOT HOLD YOU
ANYMORE THAN I COULD HOLD THE FLOWING WATER OF A STREAM

I'M LOST WHEN YOU ARE NEAR
AS MY WORDS
MY ACTIONS DO BETRAY
HOW ELOQUENCE ESCAPES ME
AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO OR SAY

STILL I WANT YOU LIKE NO OTHER
ELUSIVE VISION
SHIMMERING LIGHT
AND BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT HAVE ME
I'M RESIGNED TO HOPE TO HAVE YOU IN THE NIGHT


Poem by Lance Bunda
from  the Brainticket album
*Alchemic Universe*

Shadows of Prague

Original painting
on canvas
24" X 36"

December 5th marks the 219  anniversary

of Mozart's death
(1791)

This  painting was inspired by Mozart's life in Prague,1787.
He used to rent the rooms on the building on the right side of the street.On the left side of the street,Mozart's Opera libretist and friend was also living there at the time, they used to comunicate with each other thru the balcony, and windows of these buildings. I imagined all this going on when I was working on this painting.
If you are lucky enough to go to Prague, this street is still there, and the buildings as well,of course painted in diferent colours.

Mozart's music is being performed,recorded, and listened to at this time than ever before...

the explanation must be simple:

 An universal response to beauty
To me, Mozart  represents the pinnacle of human creative achievement.

,

PARIS NOIR

acrylic on canvas

16" X 20"

PARIS NOIR

                                                      

down boulevards and avenues

the back streets of desire

in this city of intrigue and passion

discretion is still the elegant fashion

here the chamber walls would never tell

and if they did, they'd lie

because behind closed doors beneath the covers

secrets stay unblemished between true lovers

by  Lance Bunda 

Within Reach

Acrylic on canvas

24" X 30"

                                     

WITHIN REACH

all that we see
 is within reach

to touch
to feel
to embrace

faith in fate
in love and reason
imploring life
for hope and peace

to seek
to learn
to know
to teach

all we imagine
is within reach

by Lance Bunda



Bouquet of Dreams

I have arranged a *Bouquet*of a few
of my *Dreams* for your pleasure...

SALESMAN OF FANTASY

we all want to be wanted

love to be loved

need to be needed

dream of being dreamed of

while hopes and starry eyes

flicker gently in the night

do you wait and pray for someone

to come and change your life

well I provide a service

let's just say I make things right

sample my wares because I can offer

anything you'd like

I'm the salesman of fantasy

out selling dreams

could you use

something new

to believe in

I'm a beacon of light

a port in a storm

a calm in the sea of emotion

I'll make you forever rich

or forever young

there's never a problem dreams can't overcome

I can give to you beauty

extract truth from a lie

let me help keep the tears from your eyes

if you give me a call

I can come right away

and there's never a charge

unless you want to pay

I've no shortage of clients

I work night and day

in a world that seems destined to say

      we all want to be wanted

      love to be loved

      need to be needed

      dream of being dreamed of

I'm the salesman of fantasy

out selling dreams

could you use

something new

to believe in

by Lance Bunda



Jacaranda

Acrylic on canvas
16" X 2O"

WHERE HAVE I BEEN ALL MY LIFE

I looked in life's mirror

and what did I see

someone unfamiliar

staring back at me

now I know what I'm like

and I'm like what I saw

but where have I been all my life

tell me please

scattered memories

offer hints of the past

a whirlwind existence

that blew by too fast

stripping the leaves from my trees

so tell me please

where have I been all my life

by Lance Bunda

from the Brainticket album

*Alchemic Universe*

The Canvas

acrylic on canvas

16" x 20"

The Canvas

if I could write sweet words that rhyme

I'd write a poem for you

if I could sketch a colored thought

by blending pastel views

I'd let the colors flow

forevermore

on the canvas of your heart

and if I was a poet still

I'd try to find the words

that might describe my mood

blend pastel views

with the reaches of the mind

and let the colors flow

forevermore

on the canvas of your heart

by Lance Bunda

Ballerina

16" X 20"
acrylic on
canvas

                                                And all my days are trances
                                                And all my nightly dreams
                                                Are where thy dark eye glances
                                                And where thy footstep gleams
                                                In what ethereal dances
                                                By what eternal streams..

Excerpt  from the poem "To One in Paradise" by E.A.Poe

Entrance

Inspired by the spanish colonial architecture of the 17th century..
Long open corridor to garden courtyards..
24" X 36" acrylic on canvas

Swan

NEXT

onward I go

through human interaction

exploration fuels my ride

discovery my inspiration

thoughts become goals

become plans

become me

what could be

what will be

next

life is expectation

bound by apprehension

seeking destination

hoping for redemption

inward I go

in search of satisfaction

imagination is my guide

desire my motivation

thoughts feed ideas

feed dreams

feed me

 

could I be

will I be

next

Dark study of a french window ..

Just completed this study
for your viewing pleasure..