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Anne draws
Topic Started: 2 Jun 2016, 07:12 PM (165 Views)
Anne Bonny
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the Pink Lady

I've recently rekindled my love for drawing and combined it with my love for old books. I used to collect antique books, the older the better, but they would just sit on the bookshelf collecting dust. An accident at home one day destroyed an ancient copy of Shakespeare's plays, and I finally decided to do something about these books instead of just letting them fall apart where they sat.

So I tear apart antique and vintage books and sheet music and draw on them with India ink or archival ink. I really love the look of pictures done with etchings back in the day, so I try to imitate that style somewhat. Also, it is very important to me that what I draw matches what is on that page. And the response has been pretty good! I have an Etsy shop and work with a curator who does art shows here in San Diego. I've sold a few things and shipped some of them around the world.

Here are a few samples:

This is Ophelia, and I call this "How Now, Pretty Lady?". She's drawn on pages from Hamlet that were printed c. 1900. The pages tell of her descent into madness and drowning, and then of Hamlet learning of her death by discovering her grave. When Ophelia loses her mind, she strews flowers around the castle. There's a lovely verse where she mentions each flower and what it means symbolically, and all of the flowers depicted in this drawing are mentioned in the play.

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This next one is called "What Danforth Saw", and it's from almost the last page of HP Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. I used a lot of artistic license here, as the story never said what, exactly, Danforth saw. All we know is that he lost his mind after seeing it. And it seems to me that lots of Lovecraft's creatures are giant and have tentacles, so that's what I portrayed without giving too much of the creature away.

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After the death of David Bowie, I participated in a tribute art show. I got sheet music from Space Oddity from 1969, the year the song came out. While the drawing is relatively simple, I am pleased with how whimsical it came out. It ended up selling that night to a young guy who had an emotional attachment to the song. I'm always so pleased when I hear that my work goes to a good home!

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I'll update more in the future! For now, my computer is giving me uploading issues, which is annoying so I'm going to be lazy and cut this post off here. XD
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I love them! Some day, I'm going to have one of these, signed by you of course!

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These are absolutely incredible!! I have no talent for visual arts, but as a visual learner I have a voracious appetite for it...and in that culinary vein of thinking, these are "Delicious!"

I especially enjoy how on the bottom portion of "What Danforth Saw" your art actually leaves the word Necronomicon plainly visible! So very, very cool!
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Anne, do you have a link that you can send me to your Etsy account by chance? If so, send it to me please?

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