From Books to Brush Strokes: Art Inspired by Stories

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The Apparition
The Apparition
Teddy Sykes
$180.00

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 20 x 20 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.: Her countenance was long and haggard. Her cheeks and lips were bloodless. I gazed upon the Spectre with horror too great to be described.
Adaptive Manipulator
Adaptive Manipulator
Teddy Sykes
$130.00

What text was your piece inspired by?: A book

Dimensions: 20 x 20 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.: AM wasn't God, he was a machine. We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity. He could merely be. And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak, soft creatures who had built them, he had sought revenge.
Deep Water Blues
Cindy Vener
$400.00

What text was your piece inspired by?: A quote

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.): oil and cold wax
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: "My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing." Marcelle Proust
The Fog Sets In
Cindy Vener
$150.00

What text was your piece inspired by?: A quote

Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 1.5
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What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): oil and cold wax
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: "My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing." Marcelle Proust
Memories
Memories
M Kathleen Warren
$345.00

What text was your piece inspired by?: A quote

Dimensions: 16 x 8 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): mixed, cyanotype-encaustic
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: "Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future." by Corrie Ten Boom
"Bridges of Madison County"
Suzanne's Design's
$47.00

What text was your piece inspired by?: Other

Dimensions: 12 x 16
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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.: A brief affair that is never sordid, but instead one of two souls mates, who have met too late.
"Fried Green Tomatoes"
"Fried Green Tomatoes"
Suzanne's Design's
$47.00

What text was your piece inspired by?: Other

Dimensions: 12 x 16
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.: "You know a heart can be broken but it keeps on beating, just the same.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
Nansea
$150.00

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.): Watercolor
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: The love affair of Frederic, an injured soldier, and Catherine, his nurse during World War I. She attends to his wounds, but unfortunately passes away at childbirth.
The Simple Joy of Hibiscus and Passion Flower Blooms
The Simple Joy of Hibiscus and Passion Flower Blooms
Holly Yocum
$110.00

What text was your piece inspired by?: A poem

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Creating original still lives with my blooms I grow and my camera. Then I put them on canvas.
Does the piece measure 20" inches or less (including frame)?: Yes
Please quote the written passage that inspired your piece.: The poem that follows has always inspired me to create something unique. “ The Flower That Blooms in Adversity, Is the Rarest.”

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