Drop of Water World, 6″ x 9″
Copics, fine liners, gel pen, pencil with digital background
My entry for this week’s Illustration Friday topic “Water” is based on a misquote. Here is the first stanza from “Auguries of Innocence” by William Blake:
To see the world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
The rest has some mighty depressing imagery which has no place at my blog! But you can look it up if you like. Thanks for stopping in!
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Beautiful painting! Funny, as soon as I saw the caption I immediately thought of the William Blake poem, even with it misquoted and before I read what you wrote where you mentioned the poem. There’s a really gorgeous sung version if you look up Bill Douglas’s song titled “Heaven in a Wild Flower”. The lyrics include 2 of Blake’s verses: the one above and another also not-so-depressing one:
He who binds himself to a joy
Does the winged life destroy
He who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise.
Fun painting for a beautiful poem!
Very very cool!
Neat Cindy, I like the things you represented in the water…the ruins and mermaids. :)
I love this!!! Gorgeous!!!
Beautiful!
What different colors in this underwater world! I see not only a world, but a whole story too. This is the room of two mermaid girls. The octopus is their favourite pet. Little fishes are just allways there. But why are they confined in this drop, anxiously searching for a way out? Are they kidnapped by the mad sea witch, or just grounded for an hour or so by a grumpy daddy?
Very nice!
Good for you, keeping up with IF. It somehow got away from me…
I was immediately drawn to the mermaids and how their hair is floating out behind them. Love the cool palette of this one!
A magical monochromatic world within a world…..a mystical underwater garden filled with mystical creatures, water angels, spirits, and sea castles……an absolutely wonderful fairy tale……this is pure miniature magic!!
Way to go!! Beautiful! Mom
Love it Cinders!!! Keep your blog Happy!!! There’s
enough depressing blogs around…:)
I like your take on the prompt and how you re-phrased the Blake poem.
That’s the thing with William blake. Nothing depressing about your work though, lovely.
So cool!
Ahh, he’s a great octopus!
Just laying back, checking out all the activity.
Love the colors you chose.
Wonderful illustration!
Love the concept :-) When I was a child I heard a story about a woman who had a vision of “Life the Universe and Everything” when she stopped to admire a beautiful raindrop whilst walking in the forest. I wonder if there were mermaids in her vision…
Good work :-)
I love all of your water creatures! Great work!
Hey, that’s one cute octopus! I like his texture.
Great idea. :)
Great idea and beautifully done.
Ohh.. this is a good one, and a great use of the word. But if there really are mermaids in my drinking water, wouldn’t they get stuck in my throat?
super cool and totally fun to see your process!
How I like to imagine another world existing in each small droplet…very clever!
What a wonderful little world :)I won’t look at a drop of water in the same way again :)
Hey Cindy, I like this a lot! Very dreamy with gorgeous floaty movement!!
Love it, love it, love it!!! What a great concept, and I’m just nuts over that octopus lying on what looks like a massage bed. Relaaaaaaax. :D
This is wonderful! It captures my favorite movie quote of all time:
“Anything strange and wonderful?”
“Why do you always ask that?”
“I don’t know. It’s sort of a wish.”
“A wish?”
“That something strange, or wonderful, might happen.”
Congrats on creating something beautifully strange and wonderful!
Your blog is amazing!! LOVE your slide shows showing the details as they are added to your art!
Thanks for your visit to my blog today!