Paintbrushes and Pens

For some reason I had this notion in mind

That a real artist could only be defined

As someone who used paintbrushes to create

Masterpieces on canvas, mixing on a palette

Watercolors, oil paints or acrylics in various hues

A variety of shades the artist would choose

To create in each piece of art lifelike detail

Real artists, I believed, only created paintings large-scaled

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I had no luck with brushes, their pliable tips did not respond to my will

But the longing to create art stayed with me still

Now pens and pencils seemed much easier to use

Therefore those were the art materials I did choose

Applying them to card-stock, I created

Artwork that with my aesthetic sense resonated

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I expanded my artistic ambitions to canvases slightly larger in size

I still do not paint with brushes, I’ve realized

The firm tips of pens and markers bend to my will

But the paint brushes never have and never will

Dispense paint on a surface in a way that I desire

Therefore I have abandoned paintbrushes and acquired

Pens of every shade, type and thickness

Those way through art myself I’ve finally learnt to express

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I am glad to my fallacious notion I did not stick

And that over paints, colored pens I did pick

At least I am creating art of some kind

Even if is not the image I had in mind