January Challenge - The Works of Edgar Alan Poe

[after-dark]

The Works of Edgar Alan Poe - go crazy!:biggrin:

Here's a quick sketch to kick things off..

[emkay]

oh creepy!

great subject. I'd better get to the library!

[after-dark]

you can still post in the Alice thread if you like:)

[Simon]

Ohh theres some great material there. I loved "Descent into the Maelstrom"

[after-dark]

Yeah, there's stacks of great material to draw from..

[inkgal8290]

dyslexic...count me out.....although i use to have a girlfriend who read this guy out loud on a bus or a train....maybe i could do her?

[stefanie]

The cat minus one eye and the tree he was hanged from in "The Black Cat". Haha its not very good and I had to crop half of it out... I am housesitting at the moment and using a mac which I am embarassed to say I have never done before. Couldnt find out how to resize the image so I just cropped it!

[Petra Sohns]

oh boy i think you guys will shoot me i don`t even know who that is
got to goole it gulpsssssssss
i think i wait for next month lol

[Jayde]

I bought my children a book of The Works of Edgar Alan Poe years ago but have never read any of his stories myself. Looks like I'll have to pick up the book and have a read now!

[after-dark]

hey very cool Stefanie:) Very creepy - I like:)

[Adaerel]

I just did this on paper and photoshop.

[Adaerel]

hopefully I have attached it now.

[Adaerel]

:blink:

[Adaerel]

:blushing:

[Adaerel]

sorry:blush: here it is

[emkay]

Love it. :)

[Helm]

It's great seeing art work inspired by writings - what a great idea for a monthly challenge. I might have a go at this one and I can't wait for the next one

[Helm]

This is inspired by Edgars 'Dream within a Dream'. (I couldn't wait til next months challenge lol)

[Adaerel]

Ok its finished now.

[Helm]

Looks like a page from an old old book Adaerel - nice effect!

[Petra Sohns]

The Works of Edgar Alan Poe - go crazy!:biggrin:

Here's a quick sketch to kick things off..

WOW so cool
love it

[Petra Sohns]

wow good stuff

[Petra Sohns]

This is inspired by Edgars 'Dream within a Dream'. (I couldn't wait til next months challenge lol)

Fantastic

[ingridr]

Great choice of subjects!
Here's one I'm calling "The Ravens".
Acrylic on paper, 60x84 cm, completed in a two hour session.

[Helm]

Ingridr, that so encapsulates Edgars work! Twothumbs up!

[emkay]

Ingrid! That is beautiful. Great colour, movement and composition. It's practically cawing!

[winnierose]

beautiful ingrid

[after-dark]

wow ingridr - that one is easily the best! Really well done:)

[ingridr]

A big thankyou to all!
Cheers,
Ingrid

[poppit]

Hi Everyone

This is my first time posting a piece of my work. The challengw was timely as I was looking for inspiration to creat somethin for my folio. The attached was inspired by the poem 'Alone' by Edgar A Poe:

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

All feedback welcome.

Ta
Poppit

[emkay]

That's fab Poppit!:001_tt1:

[Helm]

Hi Poppit!

I really like this picture. He looks so sad...he has given up, like he will follow that road as it is the only one for him, whatever what may lie upon it. Really great interpretation - thanks for sharing it :D

[Judy]

Good interpretation. Well done.

[Jayde]

Nice work!

[poppit]

Thank you everyone for your comments. It's a really encouraging.

Poppit