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2013
She Teaches Me to Be a Brave Man in the Dark, and I Look After Her Until She Can Bear the Heat of the Sun
8×10″ pen and chalk pastels on paper February 23, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Day Boy and Night Girl”: ‘If ever two people couldn’t do the one without the other, those two are Nycteris and I. She has got to teach me to be a brave man in the dark, and […]
2013
The Heart of the Laugh Was Love
7×9″ pen and pastel on paper October 6, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s The Princess and Curdie: And her laugh was sweeter than song and wheel Sweeter than running brook and silver bell; Sweeter than joy itself, For the heart of the laugh was love.
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
The Low Dirge That Ever Rose and Died
8×10″ pen on paper September 26, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “A Story of the Sea Shore”: “Such frenzy slow invaded the poor girl. Not hers the hovering sense of marriage bells Tuning the air with fragrance of sweet sound; But the low dirge that ever rose and died, Recurring without […]
2013
For Though He Slay Me, I Will Trust In God
8×10″ pen and colored pencil on paper June 2, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Story of a Sea Shore”: Dome up, O heaven, yet higher o’er my head! Back, back, horizon; widen out my world! Rush in, O fathomless sea of the Unknown! For, though He slay me, I […]