We have been having fun looking at paintings and photos, imaging stories and practicing writing visual descriptions.
Lakin’s response to a postcard of Claude Monet’s painting “Wheat Stacks at Dawn.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\u201cFrost is the frosting on these giant cupcakes\nof hay waiting in the pale pearly peachlight of dawn for the Giant of Alsace to\nstomp down the hill for his morning meal. At least so far, he’s been happy with\nhay. What might happen if he decides to go all keto on us and demand\nostrich-eggs over easy and a side of humans to start his day?\u201d ~ Lakin\nKhan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps you remember Don McLean’s song, “Starry Starry Night” — another example of an artist in one medium responding to an artist from another. Or take a chance with\nrandom postcards or images in a magazine or museum brochure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Or even better, treat yourself to a trip to an art museum and spend some time writing there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Originally posted on January 29, 2020 by Lakin Khan on her blog, Rhymes With Bacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lakin Khan<\/a> facilitates Jumpsart Writing Workshops<\/a> in Sonoma and Marin Counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2019s writing prompt is inspired by Jumpstart Writing Facilitator Lakin Khan. From Lakin: Participants in the Jumpstart Writing Workshops that I facilitate have been doing some ekphrastic writing, which is descriptive writing about or a response to visual art. We have been having fun looking at paintings and photos, imaging stories and practicing writing visual descriptions. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2ly","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9036,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Another example is Anne Sexton’s poem “Starry Night<\/a>” one of many ekphrastic responses to the painting of the same name by Vincent Van Gogh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope you find a chance to write ekphrastically, locating an image that sparks your imagination or elicits a response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n