Growing Devotion. Mixed media, 4 x 4 gallery wrapped canvas. © 2014 Sheila Delgado
The base color, the pink that you see, is actually a warm mauve. I mixed magenta with a bit of copper. There is a mild sheen to it. This is another possible submission to “LOVE SAYINGS: wit & wisdom of romance, courtship, and marriage.”
The words are from the poem, To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell. It was one of my favorites, a discovery in my college poetry class. I found a site that suggested you should have Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s get it on” playing while you read this. How times doth change.
Happy Monday everyone! More 30 In 30 goodness here.
Oh, so you actually painted on the print-out then? Did you clear coat it afterwards. I love your creative flair and all the patterning in your work! xoSandy
I have not sealed it yet, but I will. I may still add more color to the hearts. Thanks for visiting Sandy 🙂
I like this very interesting piece, Sheila. What does the type say and how did you get it on there?
Thanks Sandy 🙂 I printed the poem, and then cut the shapes out. So there is nothing really coherent on the hearts, but the grass area is the beginning of the poem:
Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness Lady were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long Loves Day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges side.
Should’st Rubies find: I by the Tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood:
And you should if you please refuse
Till the Conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable Love should grow
Vaster then Empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine Eyes, and on thy Forehead Gaze.
Two hundred to adore each Breast.
But thirty thousand to the rest…