“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and stare up at them and wonder about whether they was made or only just happened.”
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Click on the thumbnail for a closer look. I’m afraid this is one that looks better in person than on screen. For one thing, the white letters in the sky are readable in real life.
well I love it. It would be great as a book mark!
I agreee nd was the first thing I thought when I saw it – a fine bookmark indeed.
I love the textures and color choice in this piece.
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Ah, you found out my guilty little secret: it’s doubling as a Friday Illo and a bookmark in an online exchange. And I thought I was being so clever …
Yea Beth!! I love it. Your lettering is wonderful.
See you do light and dark also.
Mind me asking where you are doing the exchange at?
Are you still with Cyberscribes?
Very interesting work, love the atmosphere you got! Like it very much.
Thanks, toni and natura. I appreciate the comments. The exchange is on the Yahoo list, Calligraphy Exchange, which I recently joined.
Fantastic piece! Will you sell it?
ahhh the wonders of your image make me want to dream away 😉
M
http://mustashrik.blogspot.com
This beautiful! Really well done 🙂
Thanks, ellen, mustashrik and anonymous. I’m very encouraged by all the kind words (which go a long way towards offsetting the envy I feel when looking at all the other Friday Illustration submissions). And yes, I’ll sell it — but “it” could be the original pre-tweaked gouache and ink, or the archival inkjet bookmark.
Very nice. Well done, and nice multi-tasking!
very beautiful and peaceful. I love the color choices and the quote as well. NICE!
Beautiful! A serene piece of work… I like the way how you have included the typo.
Thanks, rose, dynamite soul and oneye. I appreciate all the comments. Hmmm … I guess a mistake in hand lettering would have to be a hando instead of a typo, huh? After your comment, oneye (*great* name, BTW, with the self-descriptive spelling — there’s probably a word for that), but I couldn’t find one. Unless you’re talking about “lay” which is accurate in the quotation, if not correct grammatically. I assume Twain used it intentionally in quoting the semi-literate Huck Finn. If that’s not it, tell me!
This was really beautiful work!
You sent it to ME, ME, Wonderful ME as a BOOKMARK and I still have a hard time reading those tiny white sparkling starlike letters which got tossed up into the sky(-;
But, I DO NOT want any other! This is what I used to do on a clearwarm summer night…look up at all the thousands of stars in our MilkyWay galaxy and cogitate about which one I’d go to someday.
Glad you like it! I was actually going for that nearly-readable/almost-unreadable place, to try to replicate that feeling you get when you look up at the stars and think you see something that might make sense — a red star, Venus, Orion …
Lovely!