The Artiste (inspired by 71)

[Eluoh]

The Artiste (inspired by 71)
 
He paints with oils:
a scene more or less recognizable.
Two couples in white tennis garb
sitting down at an outside table
just off the court;
a little red wine
to sate the thirst,
and petit fours for hunger.
All laid out on a white table cloth
under a large blue and white umbrella. (This sentence is missing a subject.  What is all laid out?  Is it the previous scene mentioned or something new?)
When the artist is finished
painting (I like the line break that leaves "painting" isolated.  It adds more emphasis for me.)
he lays the canvas flat: (I'm not sure if putting a colon here is appropriate to present the next couple of lines, but I think that's a personal preference for me.  It still works.)
takes a large brush sopped in turpentine
and begins to dab the canvas.
Doing so until it takes on the superficial appearance
of what he believes
looks like an impressionistic painting.
People who know
no more about impressionism
than he
tell him that it is grand.
So, he is easily able to shuffle aside
the few distracters that pop up on occasion.   
 
 
–Erthona

 
©2014

The first half of this was great with its imagery, but the last half got boring for me as it turned into what seemed more like a basic lecture.  I did enjoy the simplicity of this, and there were only a couple of things with punctuation and sentence structure that gave me minor issues.  Nice job.