Archive for February, 2012
‘Pale, Beyond Porch and Portal…’
Posted in art, illustrations, tagged AC Swinburne, Benny Thomas, black and white, illustration, poetry, the Garden of Proserpine on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Illustrated poems-great gray owl
Posted in illustrations, poetry, tagged art, Benny Thomas, black&white, brush and ink, great gray owl, illustrated poems, nature owls, night, nocturnal predators, poetry on February 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Great Gray Owl Silent is the breath of earth grown sullen By the weight of night, and all of sudden Hark! scurrying feet below! And cascading wings dip their oars In fluid motion and with unerring vision Glides the shape, As though it has the moment In its talons tight and unrelenting,- Great gray owl [...]
The Garden of Prosperpine-illustrated
Posted in illustrations, poetry, tagged art, Benny Thomas, black&white, Charles Swinburne, illustration, ink and brush, Persephone, poem, the garden of Prosperine on February 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
(This is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Illustration is by me. b.) Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds’ and spent waves’ riot In doubtful dreams of dreams; I watch the green field growing For reaping folk and sowing, For harvest-time and mowing, A sleepy world of streams. [...]
kingfisher diving-mixed media
Posted in art, tagged Benny Thomas, correction fluid for bubbles, mixed media, sold on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Royal Mistresses-II
Posted in anecdotes, tagged encyclopaedists, France, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Marquise de Montespan, Mme de Maintenon, Mme de Pompadour, Mme. de Coislin, Versailles on February 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764) The mistress of Louis XV of whom Carlyle wrote, ‘of whom it is not proper to speak without necessity’ was however an exceptional woman. After Encyclopaedia was banned without her active intervention the Enlightenment as a movement could not have got its potential as it did. She was on friendly terms [...]
Midzomer Op Wad-watercolor
Posted in art, tagged art, Benny Thomas, Dutch seascape, heat, noon, sold, waddenzee, watercolor, waterolor, work on February 27, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A Slice of Life: Life on the Go
Posted in life, tagged ageing, Benny Thomas, life and love, personal thoughts, slice of life on February 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I am at a stage life has come to mean something; funny it also means it doesn’t make much difference one way or other. I can see it as if it is happening to someone who has to live while each day I am on the go under creative urge. I almost wanted to write [...]
Bay of Salou,Spain
Posted in art, tagged 2001, 20x30cms, Benny Thomas, landscape art, mood piece, sold, watercolor on February 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Weekend Art-sisters
Posted in art, tagged art, Benny Thomas, sisters, watercolor on February 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Parody on Byron’s She Walks In Beauty
Posted in art, parody, tagged art, beauty fads, Benny Thomas, comic poetry, felt pen, Georg Gordon, illustration, ink and brush, Lord Byron, parody, plastic surgery, poetry, the weekend poetry on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
She walks in beauty, nipt and tuck’t Flabs spread all o’er, surgeons art Ne’r more meet than in Mary Plukket, And she is out to steal my heart. Walk on by, walk on Mary Pluckket I shall one day pledge my heart. 2. One more lipo-suction would have Marred my Mary beyond repair; My eternal [...]
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