Concentration #3
The Bird and His Love.
2"x3"
India Ink, Colored Pencil
Everywhere the wind goes the bird is sure to follow,
As close as he can. To follow the wind
wherever it may take him.
For the wind is his love and he’s never far behind.
But she is always out of reach,
no matter how hard he tries.
Stopping and pondering his travels worth until
that gust of wind comes. Tickles his feathers and urges his wings.
So the journey continues on for the bird. His life’s meaning
is her. To feel it again on his feathers as his love carries him far.
Yet it never lasts.
Always there but never here.
The bird chases his love forever. Never stopping. insane.
Till the wind tells him to let go.
And he does. And bird dives, and loses the wind,
And he falls.
I wrote this poem at the end of school last year for a different class. I chose to revisit this poem and create a piece of art to go with it because I feel it is one of my more creative and stronger poems. Again I used the last line as the subject of my project as it was the most impactful and important. The last line of a poem is what strikes the audience and relays the true message of the piece.
I decided to stick to the smaller composition for this piece as it would allow me to use more of my space for the main subject rather than the background. I shaped the bird to look as if it was falling out of the sky as it does in the poem. I used colored pencils to color the bird and specifically chose neutral colors because I knew I would be using rich blues for my background. The pattern that I chose for the bird wasn't researched or based off of any species. I used the colors I had and placed them how I enjoyed. For the background I used teal and blue India Ink. It ink is very rich and dark so if I were to do anything differently I would dilute the ink with water in order to get a lighter wash. An idea that I can use now to lighten my piece is using a white paint marker to draw stars or clouds in the background to contrast the dark ink.