Hope is a Thing with Feathers

Hey everyone! This week I'm going to talk about another one of my favorite poets: Emily Dickinson. She is such a fabulous writer and I love to read her work. I've added a few of her poems that I'm considering using in my poem project. Have a favorite?

I think for the one about hope I'll use soft colors like pale yellow, purple, and green, because that's what I imagine when I think of hope. I have been working on a watercolor that I'm not too fond of because it looks really strange. It was supposed to be the night sky, but it's ended up being really weird and swirly. I am considering restarting, but I think I'll try to salvage it first! I'll keep you guys updated! Sorry for a short blog, but this is sort of like a continuation of my last blog, since I'm working on the same project and with the same idea!

Poetry in Art

In my artist's statement, I talked about how I want my art to be my definition of beauty. While I love photography and painting, I also want to include other types of art, like literature. Tyler Knott Gregson is a poet that does phenomenal work on a typewriter. He types his poems on any piece of paper he can find - the back of an old receipt, an envelope, a menu - and almost relates to e.e. cummings in the way he spaces his work. I posted some examples of Gregson's work below and some of cummings work for comparison. I encourage you to look up more of his work - some of it was a tad iffy for the blog, but it is beautiful. I don't plan on writing poetry, but I used him as an example because I love his work and could definitely see myself using his quotes in my work. (see my last post for a description of what I want to do next!)

notice the random paper?

while cummings didn't necessarily write on the typewriter, doesn't the spacing look familiar?

Big news!

Guess what, you guys! I'm finally finished with my mountain painting! I added a super low-quality picture down below... sorry for that! I titled it les montagnes, which is simple "the mountains" in french. A simple name for such a detailed piece! I am so happy to be done with this piece and can't wait to hang it on my wall!

again, sorry for the low quality! Do you like the "frame" as a pice of wood?

So, now it is time to start another project! I have previously posted about painting over my photographs, which I'm still interested in, but I'm not sure how many on those I can crank out for my AP exam! I recently bought a C.S. Lewis poem book, which reminded me how much I loved one of my previous projects. I haven't posted pictures of them, but I had the best time making watercolors with strips of tape covering particular spots so that I could write in them. I had such a good time making those and experimenting with them, and I think that they really show development (which the AP graders need to see!). I still want to experiment with the photographs, but I really want to continue this idea, which I've dubbed the "quotes project".

I recently discovered an artist named Cheryl Sorg that says that "[her] love of literature manifests itself in an obsessive cut-and-paste process in which I take books, dissemble them line by line, and re-configure the snippets of text into a variety of forms large and small inspired by the themes and imagery within their stories." This is so me! Okay, so I'm not cutting the quotes into strips and making images with them, but I am using the watercolor to be a visual of the quote, plus I think literature is beautiful, so by using it, I am just fulfilling my artists statement! Here is an example of her work