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Thursday, July 2, 2015

QUOTH THE RAVEN CHALLENGE #46: POEtry

First, a brief announcement:  The Quote the Raven website has decided not to have a Design Team at this time.  I still love Edgar Allan Poe and I still love the monthly challenge from Quoth the Raven, so I will still be around and submit my work as I can.  I hope you will continue to follow! And, now...
A new month brings a new challenge from the Quoth the Raven website.  We are asked to pick one of Edgar Allan Poe's poems and to illustrate it.  I thought this would be pretty simple, but found it, indeed, a challenge.  

I picked Poe's poem Eulalie, a rather short poem and, as many of his poems, is said to have been written about his young bride Virginia Clemm Poe.  I have used only the first few lines in my artwork below. You can read the entire poem here.

My first step in creating this project was to print my computer-generated text onto a piece of Ranger "specialty" stamping paper.  Next, I stamped the Dream Girl image (from Unity Stamp Company) for my "yellow-haired young Eulalie."  I then stamped the image again on scrap paper and cut it out.  I "masked" the first image with the second and stamped the Poe image (from Lost Coast Designs) over it to make him appear to be in the background.  I used my Distress Markers to color in the hair and add a bit of blue eye shadow.



Thanks for stopping by today and for taking a moment to leave a comment so that I will know you were here.  I hope that you will find some time this month to play along with the POEtry challenge.



8 comments:

  1. Such a clever piece Kay - I do love the masking and stamping bit.... very clever. :-D
    Hugz
    IKE xxxx

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  2. This is great, Kay~ Love all that white

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  3. Great combination of the stamps. xox

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  4. Really love this piece Kay, It looks like such a simple piece but it tends to draw you in. Makes me want to go create something Poe. Thank you for the great inspiration.
    :) Chris / CS Designs

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  5. Wonderful Kay, I know it's computer text but man would I love to be able to have beautiful handwriting like that!
    Poor Mr Poe.
    Big hugs to you xx

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  6. Kay, I shall miss you soo much! I hope we don't loose touch! You inspired me to do better and more efficiently (so sorry for the joking about your preparedness! I so hope you know it was in fun! :( and your knowledge of our beloved Poe is astounding! I am following you today...why I haven't before?? Keep in touch and hugs!! Nan

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  7. The simplicity of this piece gives such emphasis to the words...lovely piece :D XXX

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