StratoArt - The Art of Dale Jackson - A New Beginning

Welcome to my journey through the world of art! This is my new blogging area. Although I've had an old blogger account long ago, it's defunct and I'm starting fresh with this one as of 2024.

A tiny bit about me: I love to draw and paint, build scale models, build 3D models, listen to good soundtracks and have a good beer!

That's it :) short and sweet!

This blogger venue will be where I can share what I learn and what I love to talk about.

First off...I just finished this little painting for my wife, whom I've been wonderfully married to for 34 years! We both love the ocean, though we live in Ohio. We did live in California for nearly 15 years, spending a lot of time at the beaches there in SoCal.

This untitled painting is a 12" x 12" oil on canvas.

I'll share some of my journey through this little painting in my next post. Basically, I started this painting as a request from my wife, Anna. She wanted two smaller paintings to go along side a large painting of the ocean that I painted a few years ago.

Here's a portion of what that painting looks like. It is a large 48" x 36" oil on gessoed aluminum panel.

                                

And so I'll finish this post with a poem by Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)

The Seal Lullaby

"Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, 

   And black are the waters that sparkled so green. 

The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us 

   At rest in the hollows that rustle between. 

Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; 

   Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease! 

The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, 

   Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas."