Showing posts with label mermaids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mermaids. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Mermaids and Poems!
Mermaids and Poems!
For the last couple of weeks, I have been working on this painting for my friend, Meg. She requested a mermaid painting back in March, and Ive just now gotten around to it. The mermaids are playing hide and seek, and I have a sneaking suspicion that one of those little fish is going to give the mermaid in the foreground away - I just know it. I may tweak a little more here and there, but I think its mostly finished... I think...
Anyway, in order to make it fit into this weeks Illustration Friday, I found a poem to go along with it:
by Walter de la Mare
Leagues, leagues over the sea I sail
Couched on a wallowing dolphins tail.
The sky is on fire, the waves a-sheen,
I dabble my foot in the billows green.
In a sea-weed hat on the rocks I sit,
where tern and sea-mew glide and beat,
and where dark shadows the cormorants meet.
In caverns cool when the tides a wash,
I sound my conch to the watery splash.
From out their grottos at evenings beam,
the mermaids swim with locks agleam.
Happy Friday!
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