From Books to Brush Strokes: Art Inspired by Stories

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 20 x 10 x 2
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What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Oil on canvas.
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: To Die of Love is to live by it...

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 20 x 10 x 2
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What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Oil on canvas.
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: NEVERMORE

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Staedler Mars Lumograph graphite pencils, Prismacolor pencils
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.Only I will remain

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Staedler Mars Lumograph graphite pencils
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: No
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: “Let Them Come! There Is One Dwarf Yet In Moria Who Still Draws Breath!”

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Oil on canvas.
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: Ensembles: " you can really wear anything to a tea party - as long as it's fancy."

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Oil on canvas.
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: "Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing. It is common for me to fall on a certain kind of sunny day into a sort of amnesia. I think with a start, "What is the time of year? Where was I yesterday? And is this May or October?"

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Watercolor, acrylic, and Bombay ink on mineral paper
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: That very night in Max's room a forest grew and grew ~ until his ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around...

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 14 x 12 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Photograph
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: Oral legend handed down through generations in Devon UK.

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 12 x 12
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Photograph
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: Inspired by the television series Game of Thrones and the film location in Northern Ireland, Dark Hedges

What text was your piece inspired by?: Other

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 0.75
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Colored pencil on paper.
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: There was an old man with a beard, who said, "it is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren, have all built their nests in my beard."

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 1.5
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What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: “…the Caribbean Sea, one of the world’s most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east.” by James Michener: Caribbean

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 13.5 x 13.5 x 2
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What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): acrylic on canvas
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: One is now inside the grove, out of one world and in the mysterious heart of another. And after long years of spiritual homelessness, of nostalgia, here is that mystic loveliness of childhood again. Here is home. by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Cross Creek, 1942

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Collage using Watercolor, Acrylic, Inks.
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: I am Malala, This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime.They said girls couldn't go to school. Malala fought for her right to be educated, and she was shot point-blank while riding bus home from school.

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): watercolor
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: Tallulah's Toe Shoes

What text was your piece inspired by?: A poem

Dimensions: 20 x 10 x 0.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Acrylic
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: "Then the bird said,"Nevermore"

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): This is an oil painting on canvas.
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: “To escape and sit quietly on the beach – that’s my idea of paradise.” – Emilia Wickstead

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 16 x 13 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Pastel on Canson MiTeintes paper. Hard and soft pastels
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: “I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.” Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What text was your piece inspired by?: A poem

Dimensions: 14 x 17 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): watercolor, ink
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: and bettyandisabel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it's spring (from IN JUST by e.e. cummings)

What text was your piece inspired by?: A poem

Dimensions: 14 x 17 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): watercolor, ink
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it's spring (from e.e. cummings' IN JUST)

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 13 x 16 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): mixed media: hand-colored papers, paint pens, colored pencil
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: Jonathan Learned to Fly (prose created from page 41) The surface of the Ocean, The offshore wind From sunrise to sunset Dazzling clear skies He flew above them On the ground Nothing but mist and rain He learned to fly Boredom And fear And anger These gone from thought Life is so short