watercolor
2013
Lovers of Wisdom
8×10″ pen, marker, and watercolor on paper December 27, 2013 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Plato’s Republic: “He said: Who then are the true philosophers? Those, I said, who are lovers of the vision of truth.”
2013
To My Sisters, In Blood and Spirit
8×10″ pen and watercolor on paper February 3, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from the poem “To a Sister” by George MacDonald: A fresh young voice that sings to me So often many a simple thing, Should surely not unanswered be By all that I can sing…. A joyful voice though born so low […]
2013
The Look That Woke His Heart, That Smiled Him Into Life
8×10″ watercolor on paper November 12, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Hidden Life: “This man in many a dream, And many a waking moment of keen joy, Blesses you for the look that woke his heart, That smiled him into life, and, still undimmed, Lies lamping in the cabinet of his […]
2013
The Princess and the Primrose
9×12″ watercolor on paper September 26, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Princess and the Goblin: And now, in the lovely spring weather, Irene was out on the mountain the greater part of the day. In the warmer hollows there were lovely primroses, and not so many that she ever got tired […]
2013
Shadow of Me
11×14″ watercolor on paper September 8, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Phantastes: “Shadow of me!” I said, “which art not me, but which representest thyself to me as me; here I may find a shadow of light which will devour thee, the shadow of darkness! Here I may find a blessing […]