Pretty Little Prompts - Week 1

                                     

Objective:

 Illustrate your vision of a Pablo Neruda poem.  It can be any poem (or just a few lines) by him that touch you or the feeling the poem gives you.

Rules:  

There are none.  

E-mail a picture of your work to weehourartbypaula@yahoo.com, with permission for me to share and the title of the poem that you chose to illustrate, and Ill add it to this blog entry - I will not use it in any other way.  

Here is a link to help you find one that you like:

http://www.poemhunter.com/pablo-neruda/

   

'Lovely One' By Pablo Neruda Lovely one, Just as on the cool stone Of the spring, the water Opens a wide flash of foam, So is the smile of your face, Lovely one. Lovely one, With delicate hands and slender feet Like a silver pony, Walking, flower of the world, Thus I see you, Lovely one. Lovely one, With a nest of copper entangled On your head, a nest The coloUr of dark honey Where my heart burns and rests, Lovely one. Lovely one, Your eyes are too big for your face, Your eyes are too big for the earth. There are countries, there are rivers, In your eyes, My country is your eyes, I walk through them, They light the world Through which I walk, Lovely one. Lovely one, Your breasts are like two loaves made Of grainy earth and golden moon, Lovely one. Lovely one, Your waist, My arm shaped it like a river when It flowed a thousand years through your sweet body, Lovely one. Lovely one, There is nothing like your hips, Perhaps earth has In some hidden place The curve and the fragrance of your body, Perhaps in some place, Lovely one. Lovely one, my lovely one, Your voice, your skin, your nails, Lovely one, my lovely one, Your being, your light, your shadow, Lovely one, All that is mine, lovely one, All that is mine, my dear, When you walk or rest, When you sing or sleep, When you suffer or dream, Always, When you are near or far, Always, You are mine, my lovely one, Always.

 First, I sketched in pencil, then I went over my sketch with a black Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pen.

Next I used Modelling Paste to create texture. Once it was dry, I painted my illustration with Plaid Folk Art craft paint in black, brown and antique gold (Folk Art Metallics).

On the previous page, I did the same thing with a Damask stencil.

 Then I mixed my own colors and began shading and painting the face.  I filled in the white spaces with Black Gesso.

 When the painting was finished, I went back over everything with the Pitt Pen.

Then I wrote out the lines I chose to illustrate in gold and bronze permanent marker.

Here is the "finished" page.  I'm still debating with myself whether or not I should add more details around her, but for now, I like it and I'm considering it done.

I cant wait to see what you come up with!