# poetry portraits drawing mother lovingmemory folklore faerie

improvement is fun, i made these 2 over a year ago. i ddnt want to change their designs too much so im happy w the changes i did make w them (notably modes outfit got an overhaul + herricks hair+earring) drawing these 2 back-to-back must be a reflex haha

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2018-12-11

How love came in I do not know,
Whether by the eye, or ear, or no;
Or whether with the soul it came
(At first) infused with the same;
Whether in part ’tis here or there,
Or, like the soul, whole everywhere.

- Robert Herrick, 'Of Love : A Sonnet'

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2018-09-04

An olive-branch before me lay;
And seeing it, I made a stay,
And took it up, and view'd it; then
Kissing the omen, said Amen;
Be, be it so, and let this be
A divination unto me - Robert Herrick

-Diviner, Thomas Woodruff-

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2018-08-16

Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May is an oil painting on canvas created in 1909 by British Pre-Raphaelite artist, John William Waterhouse. It was the second of two paintings inspired by the 17th century poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick which begins:

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2018-08-01

Taking my old Mum to Herrick Gallery for The PencilVainia Project Artists At Work. Commissions undertaken on Friday 20th July all day https://t.co/QnX4Xeyvz9

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2018-07-18

Looking forward to our exhibition 'Collective' with , open this Friday at Herrick Gallery Mayfair, 11am - 7pm. Including a range of brilliant works by a selection of Beautiful Crime and Eddie Lock artists, for example 'Lyra' by

https://t.co/z2njMAIv05

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2018-03-13

Alternative Christmas Feast suggestions:
Stewed newts' thighs;
Moth fattened in a piece of cloth with withered cherries;
Unctuous dewlaps of a snail;
Tears of a slain stag;
Broke heart of nightingale overcome with musicke;
Moles' eyes
[with apologies to Herrick]

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2017-12-23

Time to put up my very last spring thesis piece! This one was based on "Sweet Disorder" by Robert Herrick, and is quite possibly my favorite

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2017-05-13

some thank-you headshots featuring theotherrickfox, seizethemoment, renashe, and redwulf!

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2015-05-26