Portfolio...The Pink Circus
“The Pink Circus” is part of the Gallery collection in my website “The Journey”...
Acrylic on Canvas…original is for sale…
Remember when the Circus was magic? We were so young then.
“The Pink Circus” poem is at once a fantasy and a metaphor for life.....
On the surface, it’s a nostalgic memory of childhood days when everything seemed “in the pink”.....at least that’s how I remember it, and that’s why, after I did the painting, I wrote the verses…..
From the pink dresses we wore to the endless strawberry ice creams, life was a dream…....an endless pink circus.
It’s also part of the “Journey” that we are all on.....the words can be used to interpret any situation from your own lives.
_The “Clowns” you deal with now are probably quite different, and St Paul in Corinthians told us long ago, to “put away childish things”.
Many dreams have fallen by the wayside along with old loves, but sometimes we need some of that old enchantment, to get us through the day.
The words can be also interpreted literally.....
Most of us were taken to the circus when we were young… and as children, we were entranced by the excitement of the big ring, the painted faces of the clowns and the pleasurable terror of the trapeze.
_In the end we grew up, but every so often we need just a little bit of the magic of the Pink Circus. 
Those were the days, when the Pink Circus came.
Bells ringing loud, Balloons with our names.
Rivers of Pink Juice, Mountains of Jam
Oh! where are the days, when the Pink Circus came?
Those were the days when the Pink Circus came.
Clowns in a row, all painted to go.
Apples on Pink Sticks, Lakes of Pink Cream.
Oh! where are the days, when the Pink Circus came?
The days of the Circus, have gone from our lives.
Pink shoes and Pink love, have withered and died.
We’ve pulled up Pink Covers and buried them here.
Pink memories remain to show they were there....“The Pink Circus” by Janis Zroback
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hilarydougill
glorious still life, wonderful artwork, and glorious imagery and coour, beautiful fruit, good enought to eat, hugsxxx
Janis Zroback replied
That’s so nice of you Hilary…thank you….
Jim Phillips
Gorgeous looking apples, Janis. Where the apple pie recipe?LOL
Janis Zroback replied
This time, as I mention in my poem, it’s nostalgia for jam and ice cream….see the rivers? :)))
Actually I had to stop typing to take a Pumpkin pie with a Pecan Praline topping, and a loaf of fresh baked bread, out of the oven….the kitchen smells heavenly….
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David Roman
Your making me hungry Ms Janis !Quite lovely!
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you David….is it the ice cream or the jam?
DanaMS
Beautiful Janis!!!!!!!!! Love it!
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much Dana…
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blamo
A visual feast
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you T…now go eat some pink ice cream for me….I can’t eat most dairy products :((
blamo
will do
Janis Zroback replied
Good….I’ll enjoy it vicariously, as I do when other people eat ice cream around me…allergies…
Van Cordle
Wow that is excellent!!
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you Van…glad you like this one…
Linda Callaghan
Janis another great sparkling shiny apple painting – your apples look good enough to eat !
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much Linda…this one is all about the circus….see info on right…
Linda Callaghan
Sooo true Janis – yes I remember toffee apples on sticks and pink candy floss – not seen a circus for years but have happy childhood memories, at least we have talented artists like you to bring our memories alive again! :-)
Janis Zroback replied
I did not like the clowns though…however, I included clown colours and tent shapes in the background, as well as the idea of the rivers flowing around the apples reminiscent of the shiny apples on sticks, that stuck in our teeth….thank you Linda…
Mira Dobreva
They are looking so real and sweet!:)
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much, and welcome to my pages…
Alison Pearce
Beautiful!
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you Alison…
Nith
colourful works
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much Nith…
Joanne Bradley
Incredible still life! Your apples look so real, it is unbeleivable!
Janis Zroback replied
Thanks Joanne..it’s a temptation to paint everything real…it’s painstaking and takes a long time, but in some ways, it can be easier than doing a more relaxed impressionistic style of work…here you paint what you see…but I added the fantasy background and that I think, softens the realism a bit….these works are not varnished or coated, and I don’t use painting mediums…the gloss on the apples comes from using colour the right way…
Karin Taylor
...it’s just so fantastic Janis!
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much Karin…glad you like it..
sadeyedartist
I like the fruit… tell me about the background.
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much…
The background represents a fantasy “landscape”...in brief….each painting in the series is entirely different from all the others…you can see some of the collection in these pages, but there are 40 in all…in this one the colours of the circus, the rivers of pink jam, the shapes of the canopy of the circus tent, all can be seen…that being said, in every painting in the collection, there are rivers of dark colour running under the fruit, and each time that dark colour represents something else…
Each painting takes quite a time to complete, though they are not very large, and all originals are for sale…once sold the piece will be removed from these pages…I’m glad you like them…
Carol Berliner
soooo cooool!
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much Carol…sorry I must have missed this… :))
Pinkham
You know how to polish fruit! There is life in the shine.
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much…I’m glad you like it.. :))