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The overwintering monarch butterflies in Santa Cruz in December 2009 and the birth of beautiful Madison Rose to friends in January 2010 provided the inspiration for the music.

A Pensive Moment
A.M. Otwell, 2009
14 x 11 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Prints available at RedBubble.

This time I managed to get a digital image large enough to make a small poster available along with the other options (matted print, laminated print, greeting card, framed print, etc.). If there’s a lot of interest in this format, I’ll certainly try to go back and get suitable images of older paintings. If you are interested in a poster of a particular image, please let me know!

I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of dancing Daffodills;
Along the Lake, beneath the trees,
Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:–
A Poet could not but be gay
In such a laughing company:
I gaz’d–and gaz’d–but little thought
What wealth the shew to me had brought:

For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude,
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the Daffodils.

–William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Meditation
Leon Bonnat (1833-1922)
Oil on canvas, 1884
57-1/2 x 40-5/8 inches

A Pensive Moment
Jean Beauduin (1851-1916)
Oil on canvas
24 x 29 inches

A Pensive Moment by Friedrich von Amerling is here.

In Traumen Versunken (A Pensive Moment)
Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887)
Oil on Canvas