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Gianetta Ellis
stewARTship studios ~ Incorporating Art to Stewardship
Drawings 1 and 2 are just two of many characters I created for an environmental education curriculum I developed for a county park. This "community" of characters was brought to life through costume design and actors for the benefit of park visitors.
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Drawing 3 is a chapter illustration in a book entitled The Legend of Albion. The author is Joseph Randell Sherman. Buy the book on amazon today!
I use mixed media including colored pencil, ink, marker and sometimes watercolor in my drawings. I also paint in both oil and acrylic. My poetry is born of a deeply spiritual, mystical place. I'm happiest when I'm somehow combining my art and my writing.
Lake Wilhelm in the Springtime
A silken world,
you are moving blue.
Quietly, I observe your
undulating conversation
with the warm breeze.
Each time he amuses you,
your laughter lifts your perfume
and makes your sun-dusted
crests glimmer ever so
delightfully.
I watch as you rush to greet your shore;
your union sounds like a lovers’ kiss,
but I see the stoic banks have retreated
from too much affection
for they barely support the bare bones of an Alder
swaying above your cool fervor, and
they no longer protect the exposed toes
of the Red Osier Dogwood snarling
at your quips, which are spurred on
by the laughter of impudent gulls.
But, I am nothing like the banks
that contain you;
I shall not recoil from your advances
nor shall this attraction erode.
You are my temptress of the season
and I am caught by your lure
even now
as I cast these lines.
© 2009
