“Be My Singing Lesson, Be My Song…” (for HMM)
Oil pencil, pastels, drybrush
2021-20203
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I began this two years ago, when I was still living in the small valley below Nellysford. It’s very beautiful there.
For my own reasons, this picture was for Herve and, since his death, still is….rather obviously. Having finished it today (I laid it aside for two years) I have no need to keep it.
The title is taken from the lyrics (see below) to Patty Griffith’s song “Blue Sky”. The song/lyrics might seem incongruous with the painting, but they’re not. Go to:
“The farther I come, the farther I fall
Whatever I knew was nothing at all
It was nothing at all, just making me small
Smaller and smaller, I fall back
Sooner or later with a view from the ground
Chasing the race and the races will run you down
Sooner or later with a view from the ground
And a tear in your eye, you say, baby, why can’t we fly
In the blue sky
High in the blue sky
Be my singing lesson, be my song
When I tell you I’m falling, you tell me I’m strong
The trees have grown tall, the birds have flown high
Higher and higher, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
I’ll fly over a rainbow, I’ll be sun kissed
Sail around the planet Venus
And send a long letter way back home
That says all that I know, all that I know
Is the blue sky
High in the blue sky
The farther I come, the farther I fall
Whatever I knew was nothing at all
The trees have grown tall, the birds have flown high
Higher and higher, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
High in the blue sky….”