Fine Arts Influenced by Literature
Featured Work
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The Ghost, Ice Princess by artistmind
“I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.” ~Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 1, p.19 Wow…I am soo humbled from all the features received on this oil painting, and it’s not even finished. Thank you sooo much. It’s truely inspiring! xo myspace.com/Artistmind / Sylvia Lizarraga ( photography permission granted & credit to: / Deviantart ~ STUPID cupid..III by ~kontes-zoya-ossupov / model ~ Hande g. (unfinished artwork, 18×24” on particle board ) /
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Deja Vu #3 by Midori Furze
My “Deja Vu” series / Acrylic on canvas / Original was sold. I wrote one part of an old Japanese Poem by Ietaka Fujiwara. / - The Tachibana (Citrus) has the same fragrance as my old memory. Even though the tree has blossomed for the first time, the smell is the same as my old tree. I hope you like it….
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RORSCHACH by ZOMBIE RUST
August 3rd 1977. The emergency bill proposed by Senator Keene has been passed. Vigilantism is now illegal again, as it was before they altered the laws to accommodate strategically useful talents such as myself. / The only other active vigilante is called Rorschach, real name unknown. He expresses hs feelings toward compulsory retirement in a note left outside police headquarters along with a dead multiple rapist. / (Jon Osterman aka Dr Manhattan, superhero). Long before last year’s Zack Snyder film, The Watchmen was an already succesful twelve-issue graphic novel limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins, published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987. It was the only graphic novel to appear on Time’s 2005 “All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels” list and it is fairly consideres as one of the very best comic books of all time. Inks
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Jubilee Trail ~ Call me Florinda (where's the dog?) by Barbara Applegate
The idea for this western olde time painting came from the book Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow. The lady in the scene is Florinda Grove a Painted Lady of an old west salon with a good heart. She was an entertainer in New Orleans, La., and a Saloon girl and singer in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California. / I read the book as a young teenager and loved it then I read every book Ms Bristow ever wrote, but did not like the movie from 1954. / I painted this for a Painted Lady or Soiled Dove Challenge in the Wild West Show Group it was such fun to do. / An original oil painting done on a 9 X 12 stretched canvas created in my Grants Pass, Oregon Studio. Featured in / First Things Group
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Treatise on the Steppenwolf. Not for Everybody. by ZOMBIE RUST
Steppenwolf is probably the best known novel of the German/Swiss author Hermann Hesse, originally published in 1927 . / The novel follows the writings of Harry Haller, a middle aged spiritually sick man, isolated from the rest of the world, switched into two modes: the academic, rational H.Haller himself and the emotional a la Jeckyll and Hyde type wolf from the steppe. That until he finds an advertisement for the anarchist Magic Theater and a brochure quoting Treatise on the Steppenwolf. Not for Everybody. / Hesse considered Steppenwolf to be his most violently misunderstood work. He wrote it while approaching 50 intending it to be about the difficulties of that age, but the book had fallen into the hands of much younger readers… / I was 13 or so when I first read it… / Image drawn for the Fine Arts Influenced by Literature challenge, Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse . Inks
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Miss Muffet by AnitaInverarity
ALTERNATIVE NURSERY RHYMES Pen and Ink Little Miss Muffet sat on her Tuffet / quafffing some cheap champagne, / Along came a Spider and sat down / beside her…. / She really was never the same !! My first upload for the 1000 Girls in 100 Days Project (28th Oct 2009- Free Topic) / 10 Artists, 100 Days, 1000 Works / Follow this exciting Blog here….. / 1000 GIRLS IN 100 DAYS
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Peter Pan by pinkyjain
Watercolor painting, Oct 2009 For an upcoming challenge in “Fine Arts Influenced by Literature.” For the book “Peter Pan: or, The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up,” by James M. Barrie. / i tried to go along with the description of Barrie’s for Captain Hook. He dressed in the style of Charles II, & liked to smoke two cigars at once. In case children see this, hee hee, i painted the smoke to look like poisonous skulls.
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Hope is the thing... by purelydecorative
...that perches in the soul, / And sings the / tune without the words, / And never stops / at / all…. / Emily Dickinson.
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The Ghoul Queen by Pete Janes
I must have been reading H.P. Lovecraft. A rare venturing into charcoal, ash, pencil,and chalk on toothy cold press. She popped up in a dream years ago when I was a child. Her appearance was horrific yet she was benign and secretly powerful. I haven’t seen her in a recurring dream since I completed this portrait. A related piece is The Ghoul Footman: /
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Abstract-The Centre of Your Soul by Janis Zroback
“The Centre of Your Soul is part of the Abstract Collection..look closely and the brush strokes will seem to coalesce into the imagery expressed in the poem... / I started to create the work with the poem running through my head, and as the brush moved across the paper, the abstract image emerged at the same time as the water, garden, and river made their presence known. / It was exactly as I wanted it to be…a feeling of great depth, a submergence of self, and surrender to the soul. Watercolour and Watercolour mediums on Arches Not Paper… 1032 Views Features in Prize Challenges There is a quiet water / In the center of your soul, / Where a son or daughter / Can be taught what no man knows. There’s a fragrant garden / In the center of your soul, / Where the weak can harden / And a narrow mind can grow. There’s a rolling river / In the center of your soul, / An eternal giver / With a rich and endless flow. There’s a land of muses / In the center of your soul, / Where the rich are losers / and the poor are free to go. So remain with me, then, / To pursue another goal / And to find your freedom / In the center of your soul.. J. Kavanaugh
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For T.S.Eliot by izzybeth
T.S.Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” is my favorite Christmas poem… Even though one may argue that it is not a Christmas poem. A cold coming we had of it, / Just the worst time of the year / For a journey, and such a journey: / The ways deep and the weather sharp, / The very dead of winter.’ / And the camels galled, sore-footed, / refractory, / Lying down in the melting snow. / There were times we regretted / The summer palaces on slopes, the / terraces, / And the silken girls bringing sherbet. Then the camel men cursing and / grumbling / And running away, and wanting their / liquor and women, / And the night-fires going out, and the / lack of shelters, / And the cities hostile and the towns / unfriendly / And the villages dirty and charging high / prices: / A hard time we had of it. / At the end we preferred to travel all / night, / Sleeping in snatches, / With the voices singing in our ears, / saying / That this was all folly. Then at dawn we came down to a / temperate valley, / Wet, below the snow line, smelling of / vegetation; / With a running stream and a water-mill / beating the darkness, / And three trees on the low sky, / And an old white horse galloped in / away in the meadow. / Then we came to a tavern with / vine-leaves over the lintel, / Six hands at an open door dicing for / pieces of silver, / And feet kicking the empty wine-skins. / But there was no imformation, and so / we continued / And arrived at evening, not a moment / too soon / Finding the place; it was (you may say) / satisfactory. All this was a long time ago, I / remember, / And I would do it again, but set down / This set down / This: were we led all that way for / Birth or Death? There was a Birth, / certainly, / We had evidence and no doubt. I had / seen birth and death, / But had thought they were different; / this Birth was / Hard and bitter agony for us, like / Death, our death. / We returned to our places, these / Kingdoms, / But no longer at ease here, in the old / dispensation, / With an alien people clutching their / gods. / I should be glad of another death. I did not do the art. I only added color to it. It is from public domain REUSABLE ART. The site is here if you want to see what they offer. I recently found a public domain site that has some beautiful vintage images, and it even shows the reader how to do a couple things in Photoshop.
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Orange Stars by Constance Widen
” Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.” / HENRI MATISSE Number 3 of 5 in the Series of the butterflies found in BC, Canada. I used 5” x 7” Daler Rowney Ingres paper with graphite and Prismacolor Verithin Coloured pencils.
Recent Work
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Under The Sunset by Constance Widen
“Hold me close, under the sunset / and let God’s reds and oranges soothe your eyes / like this is all a dream” / DANIEL ALEXANDER HOWELL This is a representation of Ted Widen’s photograph, “Pioneer Hay Barn”, one of the old barns that have fallen into disrepair here in the Bulkley Valley, BC in Canada. I’ve used 8.5” x 11” (A4) Daler Rowney Ingres paper with Schmincke, Sennelier and Unison pastels.
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Mustardseed In Bonnievale. by Constance Widen
“It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world.” / AYN RAND / Another of that wondrously serene Winter’s morning when I painted for “That Beautiful Day in Bonnievale”, this one was painted from the beginning of the road that led to the wine farm in the beautiful Western Cape of South Africa. A3 Ingres paper using Schmincke, Sennelier and Unison pastels.
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Rays of Colour by Sophie Shapiro
I give a mind of perfect mood, whereby they draw to Me / And, all for love of them, within their darkened Souls I dwell / And, with bright rays of wisdom’s lamp, their ignorance dispel…... Bhagavad Gita, Book 10 Painting using acrylics, pigment and ink. / 102×42cm on paper. November, 20th 2009
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We're all mad down here by Adara Rosalie
Alice in wonderland tee.
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Orange Stars by Constance Widen
” Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.” / HENRI MATISSE Number 3 of 5 in the Series of the butterflies found in BC, Canada. I used 5” x 7” Daler Rowney Ingres paper with graphite and Prismacolor Verithin Coloured pencils.
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Come With Me by Constance Widen
“Come with me / My love / To the sea / The sea of love. I want to tell you / how much / I love you.” / CAT POWER Early spring in Whitesands towards the end of a long and stormy winter. This is one of my favorite places to be, so I was able to paint it without a photo for reference. I love allowing myself to be lost in the waves. This painting is for you my beloved! This painting was featured as a Tutorial in Issue 74 of the Australian Artist’s Palette magazine. Arches Pastel and Fusain Laid Paper using Schmincke, Sennelier, Unison, Rembrandt and Winsor and Newton pastels.
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Fire-Rim Oxeyes by Constance Widen
“The Universe resounds with the joyful cry, “I AM!” / SCRIABIN Number 4 of 5 in the Series of butterflies found in BC, Canada. I used 5” x 7” (A5) Daler Rowney Ingres paper, graphite and Prismacolor Verithin coloured pencils.
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Abstract...The Approach by Janis Zroback
As I was painting this abstract, I pondered the many meanings to the word “approach”...for example there is…. / The simple act of drawing near…. / A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. / The temporal property of becoming nearer in time..e.g. “the approach of winter” / The final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing… / My painting is mainly concerned with the last two…I wanted to evoke both meanings of the word…it is the final curtain of autumn and winter is fast approaching..pockets of red and orange gleam here and there, as autumn stubbornly defies the chill, but at night the icy fingers of winter touches everything with frost..in the countryside snow drifts casually down, as if refusing to admit it’s here for good…another look at the painting evokes the final approach to land…stars twinkle in the night sky, the land shows the last vestiges of fall and the approach of winter….we are excited, relieved to have made it home safely once more... Watercolour on Aquaboard The half-stripped trees / struck by a wind together, / bending all, / the leaves flutter drily / and refuse to let go / or driven like hail / stream bitterly out to one side / and fall / where the salvias, hard carmine— / like no leaf that ever was— / edge the bare garden. William Carlos Williams / A Conjunction of Elements / After The Harvest / There’s A Light in the Darkness / Midnight on Egdon Heath / Reflected Glory / Tightwire / Realities
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That Beautiful Day in Bonnievale. by Constance Widen
“How like a Winter hath my absence beene / From thee.” / CAMPION After I had gone away, it was important for me to paint this so, so gentle, late Winter’s early morning in Bonnievale, when even the wind was hushed and the golden mustardseed reflected the sunlight with joyful abandon. A3 Ingres paper, using Schmincke, Sennelier and Unison pastels.
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Abandoned Site by Janis Zroback
This piece is titled “Abandoned Site” and is painted negatively in watercolour on Arches Not Paper.. See samples of a new series of tools below.. / 189 Views… Weeds between sleepers, abandoned. / Wind insinuating, abandoned, through / the bricked-up abandoned windows / in the station-master’s head. Abandoned. The tea-urn can’t stop whistling, / abandoned, and passengers abandoned / on platforms are not about to step / through carriage doors, abandoned. Paperbacks locked in the Waiting-Room / (Ladies), abandoned at Page 52, / with the kiss and the handshake / abandoned on the slotted metal seats. And the diesel engine stationary, / its journey curtailed, and its driver / shunted to a branch-line to the east; / and here’s the station-master’s cap, abandoned: the wrong place to start from. Stephen Waling… / Still Life with an Awl / The Legacy
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Storm Clouds Over Winter Mountain Blues by Constance Widen
“Who will hold my hand, / Soaring on blue wings / In that misty land? / Who will take my hand / To guide me from that far land / Back to sweet mortal things?” / H.C. BOSMAN A representation of another photograph by Ted Widen of Hudson Bay Mountain in British Columbia, Canada. I’ve used 8.5” x 11” (A4) Daler Rowney Ingres paper and Schmincke, Sennelier and Unison pastels.
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For T.S.Eliot by izzybeth
T.S.Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” is my favorite Christmas poem… Even though one may argue that it is not a Christmas poem. A cold coming we had of it, / Just the worst time of the year / For a journey, and such a journey: / The ways deep and the weather sharp, / The very dead of winter.’ / And the camels galled, sore-footed, / refractory, / Lying down in the melting snow. / There were times we regretted / The summer palaces on slopes, the / terraces, / And the silken girls bringing sherbet. Then the camel men cursing and / grumbling / And running away, and wanting their / liquor and women, / And the night-fires going out, and the / lack of shelters, / And the cities hostile and the towns / unfriendly / And the villages dirty and charging high / prices: / A hard time we had of it. / At the end we preferred to travel all / night, / Sleeping in snatches, / With the voices singing in our ears, / saying / That this was all folly. Then at dawn we came down to a / temperate valley, / Wet, below the snow line, smelling of / vegetation; / With a running stream and a water-mill / beating the darkness, / And three trees on the low sky, / And an old white horse galloped in / away in the meadow. / Then we came to a tavern with / vine-leaves over the lintel, / Six hands at an open door dicing for / pieces of silver, / And feet kicking the empty wine-skins. / But there was no imformation, and so / we continued / And arrived at evening, not a moment / too soon / Finding the place; it was (you may say) / satisfactory. All this was a long time ago, I / remember, / And I would do it again, but set down / This set down / This: were we led all that way for / Birth or Death? There was a Birth, / certainly, / We had evidence and no doubt. I had / seen birth and death, / But had thought they were different; / this Birth was / Hard and bitter agony for us, like / Death, our death. / We returned to our places, these / Kingdoms, / But no longer at ease here, in the old / dispensation, / With an alien people clutching their / gods. / I should be glad of another death. I did not do the art. I only added color to it. It is from public domain REUSABLE ART. The site is here if you want to see what they offer. I recently found a public domain site that has some beautiful vintage images, and it even shows the reader how to do a couple things in Photoshop.
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 ;)
We will hold a challenge to compete for the group avatar each month. The forum has a book club where the forthcoming challenges will be based on what book is selected by Paul or myself. We are also accepting member suggestions on books to feature.
The goal of the forum is to increase communication through book discussion, with the end result being great art created by readers. There are also places in the forum to talk about medium, techniques, etc.
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