Fine Arts Influenced by Literature
Featured Work
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278 - PETER THE RABBIT - DAVE EDWARDS - COLOURED PENCILS & FINELINERS - 2009 by BLYTHART
Many artists like art to be serious and meaningful, which is fine by me, but hey, I think the world is big enough to have fun art as well as serious art. This is based on a fluffy toy, but I changed the colours of his scarf, added stripes and gave him stripes too. I used coloured pencils and fineliner pens for this. Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit obviously influenced the manufacturers of this fluffy toy and I was probably think of him when I redesigned the scarf :) And here is the esteemed model himself: FEATURED BY FINE ARTS INFLUENCED BY LITERATURE GROUP – 11th October 2009 FEATURED BY RABBIT, RABBIT GROUP – 11th October 2009 FEATURED BY FIRST THINGS GROUP – 11th October 2009 / FEATURED BY ART AND STORIES MADE FOR CHILDREN – 15th October 2009 / FEATURED BY DIMENSIONS GROUP – 25th October 2009 / I wish to thank Peter the rabbit for being such an inspiration. This portrait I did of him was favourited 23 times and Featured twice … in just the first two days.
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Twilight by ReadingBeauty
Cover of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, oil painting on canvas - Featured in Fine Arts / - Featured in FAN FRENZY / - Featured in Weekly Theme Challenges
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A Dirty Job by pinkyjain
For another challenge. From the wonderful & enchanting book “A Dirty Job” by Christopher Moore. This picture i did is from the book cover that the main character receives. The little people are suppose to be skewered on Death’s bony fingers. The flavor is like “Day Of The Dead” art. i used prisma colored pencils & sparkly gelly pens. The sparkles didn’t come out so cool on the scan job. i did the version for the greeting cards separate because it got cut off & i had to put a border about it. Also on a tee
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Creation Abandoned by Sturstein
Entry for the ‘Fine Arts Influenced by Literature’ group’s Frankenstein challenge. Ink on paper.
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Frankenstein's Monster by Conrad Stryker
Painted this for the Art Lit group’s ‘Frankenstein’ challenge. I basically just tried to pretend I’d never seen the movies …. which, of course, I have. Innumerable times. Those are my favorites of Universal’s classic horror films. Pure class. Oils on 8×10 canvas panel.
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Frankenstein by Marilyn Brown
As portrayed by the one and only Boris Karloff. Frankenstein to me represents the most misunderstood of all the monsters and really is a very very sad story. Soft pastels on A4 textured Canson paper 140gsm.
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Twilight - starring my step-daughter by Alleycatsgarden
Twilight – starring my step-daughter
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"Come Into My Parlor Said The Spider To The Fly" by pinkyjain
In tribute of Bela Lugosi’s birthday, which was on 20 October. He is my all time favorite Count Dracula, in my all time favorite Dracula movie, 1931. Hand drawn in NO.2 & 2B pencils, did late this afternoon, 21 October, 2008. Took about 1 1/2 hours
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The Vampire Lestat by marksatchwillart
ACEO, 2.5×3.5 inches, watercolur and gouache, 2008. / A portrait of the vampire Lestat, a character from the vampire novels of Anne Rice.
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Awaiting Dorothy's Arrival by Paul Compton
Sketch of Elphaba from Gregory Maguire’s wonderful book Wicked.
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The Vampire In His Study by pinkyjain
For a challenge
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Quoth the Raven by Conrad Stryker
I think this one’s pretty self explanatory.
Recent Work
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Girl on Balcony by redqueenself
All profits from the sale of this work will be donated to Wildlife-Appeal This is an oil painting of a Renaissance girl leaning on a balcony waiting…maybe Juliet…maybe someone who never met her Romeo / 24”x32” canvas / redqueen’s elf on zazzle.com T-Shirt /
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Devi by nabakishore
Devi(ink on paper,38”x28”,$50) Devi Durga in splendour of her divine sakti(power).
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Portrait..Spellbound by Janis Zroback
“Spellbound” is part of the Winter and Portrait Collection…the painting captures the feeling of submitting ones own will to the tyrannical demands of the storm….my portrayal is one of a goddess of winter…with the red berries in her hair, she embodies its stillness, its sense of silence, darkness, and bitter cold..the falling snow is a “poem of the air,” wrote Longfellow, where the “troubled sky reveals the grief it feels.” / Winter is a time to concentrate on renewing and affirming human relationships. Watercolour on Arches Not Paper… VIEW THE ENTIRE WINTER COLLECTION HERE The night is darkening round me, / The wild winds coldly blow; / But a tyrant spell has bound me / And I cannot, cannot go. The giant trees are bending / Their bare boughs weighed with snow. / And the storm is fast descending, / And yet I cannot go. Clouds beyond clouds above me, / Wastes beyond wastes below; / But nothing dear can move me; / I will not, cannot go...E. Bronte / Forever Autumn VIEW THE ENTIRE PORTRAIT COLLECTION HERE
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Solstice Dawn by Constance Widen
“Nothing in the world’s going to pull me back / And nothing’s gong to keep me in / Going to run like the wind. / And if you should tell me you want to hold me down, / Before the glow of morning I’ll be gone without a sound. / The more you try to keep me in / The less you will succeed. / Sailing free, / Sailing free. / MIKE BATT Sunrise on Hudson Bay Mountain in British Columbia, when the snow flushed pink for a few short moments as the rising sun shone on it, and the Full Moon was setting. Taken from Ted Widen’s photograph “Moon-set, Sun-rise”. I used 9” x 12” Daler Rowney Ingres paper and Schmincke, Sennelier and Unison pastels.
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The Other End of the Spectrum by Sophie Shapiro
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee….. Words by William Shakespeare Music – Enya Painting using mixed media on paper / 120×42cm November, 5th 2009
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Landscape...Mysterious Kor by Janis Zroback
“Mysterious Kor” came out of nowhere today…I started out planning to do a winter painting, then as this scene emerged, out of the blue the title came into my head…the strange thing is that I had never heard of or read the poem before in my life…when the name popped into my head I looked it up and found it was about a city where no one lived, and is an allegory about London during the blitz…when I read the first two lines, I saw that they echo the subject of the painting... Watercolour on Arches Hot Pressed Paper…Featured in Forests and Landscape Painting 1,567 Views Not in the waste beyond the swamps and sand, / The fever-haunted forest and lagoon, / Mysterious Kor thy walls forsaken stand, / Thy lonely towers beneath the lonely moon, / Not there doth Ayesha linger, rune by rune / Spelling strange scriptures of a people banned. / The world is disenchanted; over soon / Shall Europe send her spies through all the land. Nay, not in Kor, but in whatever spot, / In town or field, or by the insatiate sea, / Men brood on buried loves, and unforgot, / Or break themselves on some divine decree, / Or would o’erleap the limits of their lot, / There, in the tombs and deathless, dwelleth SHE! Andrew Lang
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WE ARE MAKING A BOOK FULL OF THE VERY BEST ILLUSTRATIONS OVER AT INTERNATIONAL SUPERHEROES OF DRAWING, ILLUSTRATION & WORLD DOMINATION / To be in with a chance to be featured in the book, just enter this here challenge with your best work that fits the group criteria. / BOOK CHALLENGE Never heard of us ? Well it may be time to join up and have some fun, we have weekly & monthly challenges, weekly features and lots of cool prizes and projects (like exquisite corpse and the worlds longest illustration). We are also one of bubble’s key host groups, so lots of traffic expected :)) The book is being made on BLURB for 0% markup, only blurb profits, but it means the lowest price for our members to get a PUBLISHED work in a superb ART BOOK. / Of course you can then buy and resell for a profit, take orders, arrange book signings (whatever your new found fame dictates). Hope to see you there- xxxx
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This collection of my Winter scenes is ready for purchase right now, just in time for Christmas..they are also perfect hostess gifts for all those parties you will be attending…I am showing them as cards, but of course they are also available as prints.. there are many more in my gallery this is just a sampling NOTE: A PURCHASE OF TEN OR MORE CARDS WILL RECEIVE AS A BONUS, A SPECIAL GIFT FROM ME / Blue Night / / Winter Storm / / Evergreen / / Winter Walk / / Winter Day / / Heavens Gate / / Peace in the New Year / / The Sentinels / / The Two / Looking for Cornelius / / Winter’s Light / / Winter’s Sun / / Waiting / / After the Storm / / The Nothing that Is / / Winter Drift / Grateful / / C’est L’hiver
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Abstract...A Conjunction of Elements by Janis Zroback
EDT…it’s the edge of winter…snow, wet, dark, light, night, day…a time when S.A.D is pre-eminent…it takes time to adjust, and some wait in limbo for EDT in March, but some embrace the changes…I don’t like the dark that sets in so early, so I have daylight bulbs in all my lamps…six weeks from now it’s the solstice and we start looking forward to lighter days Thomas Hood expresses it beautifully for us Watercolour on Sennelier Not Paper CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ENTIRE WINTER COLLECTION No sun-no moon! / No morn-no noon! / No dawn-no dusk-no proper time of day- / No sky-no earthly view— / No distance looking blue .. No road-no street- / No “t’other side the way”- / No end to any Row- / No indications where the Crescents go .. No top to any steeple- / No recognitions of familiar people- / No courtesies for showing ‘em— / No knowing ‘em! No mail-no post- / No news from any foreign coast- / No park-no ring-no afternoon gentility- / No company—no nobility .. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, / No comfortable feel in any member— / No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, / No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, / November!...Thomas Hood / Effet De Neige
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Picking the Tulips - Iron County Courthouse by KipDeVore
A little girl still in pink winter coat with hood kneels to pick a tulip as sunlight breaks through an early spring storm at the county seat, rural Ironton, Missouri. The rustic, antebellum (built 1857) ‘Iron County Courthouse’ is one of the oldest nationally in use. Mother with daughter at left pace happily into view as doves alight in foreground. The composition seeks to highlight the age-old human problem of law vs. mercy, tackled endlessly throughout both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible and, especially in the NT book of Romans - of when to be unforgiving and when to be patient, kind and merciful. The courthouse represents the law through which happiness could theoretically exist, e.g., the safety of the mother with daughter at left. But the little girl picking the tulip near the foreground poses a problem: She is trespassing on private property. Aside from metaphor based on this problem in all it’s infinite forms, my hope artistically was to complete a landscape that is both interesting and, perhaps—or, at least I hope - inspiring, of a subject I grew up walking past, and now drive past, nearly every day. 21” x 29”, watercolor with India ink on 300 lb. Arches cold press watercolor paper.
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Purple Defiance by Constance Widen
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: / It’s loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness…. / An endless fountain of immortal drink, / Pouring unto us from heaven’s brink.” / JOHN KEATS This painting of Jacarandas lining the road along the wine farms in South Africa has been so named because of the call to rid the country of these beautiful trees. They remain part of the South African scenery and are deeply embedded in the peoples’ psyche. I used A4 sized Canson paper, with Schmincke, Sennelier and Unison pastels.
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Monsoon in Takoradi by Constance Widen
“Listen! you hear the grating roar / Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling / At their return, up the high strand, / Begin, and cease, and then again begin, / With tremulous cadence slow, and bring / The eternal note of sadness in.” / MATTHEW ARNOLD Takoradi is a coastal town in Ghana, where beauty, poverty and malaria live side by side. When it is Monsoon Season, the rain falls down without respite, the entire world becomes waterlogged and “clouds” build in the great trees and move upwards. I used 300mm x 400mm Canson Mi Teintes pastel paper and Schmincke, Sennelier and Unsion pastels.
About This Group
This group is for bookworms who are artists. TRADITIONAL FINE ART in the forms of drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpting are acceptable as long as the work pertains to a book by depicting a character, inherent theme in the book or the author. (Digital Art, Photoshop, etc. are not suitable for this group; please apply your digital works to these groups: Inspired Art, Creative Inspirations, or Abstract Digital Art or Writing).
When submitting, PLEASE INDICATE THE BOOK, STORY OR CHARACTER THAT INFLUENCED YOUR WORK AND the MEDIUM IN WHICH IT WAS CREATED. Failure to do this will result in work being rejected, and we really don’t like having to do that ;)
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