Poetry Assignment

Mrs. Rose assigned us a task to find a poem and interpret the poem through a piece of art work. For this project, I have decided to use the poem "A Touch, a Tear, a Tempest", written by Sanober Khan.

Here is the poem:

“I do not want to sleep
for fear I might miss the twinkle of the brightest star

for fear I may never know
how the moon glimmers, in the darkest hour.” 
― Sanober Khan

After reading this poem, I envisioned someone sitting outside during the night and gazing up at the stars, not wanting to go to sleep. So, I have decided to paint my interpretation of this poem.

Firstly, I started by painting a night sky, and added stars. I also decided that I wanted this painting to be a silhouette.

Next, I painted a tree.

 

Lastly, I painted a person sitting against the tree looking at the stars. Unfortunately, the person did not turn out the way I planned in my head. I forgot to paint neck, and his body does not look normal.

The most challenging part of this project for me was blending the sky. There were many times where I just wanted to add water to my paintbrush to help with blending the colours, but that is a no-no when using acrylic paint. The number of times I restarted painting the sky is frustratingly high. And to be honest, I'm still not quite happy with the blending. I also feel like I maybe should have gone lighter as I reached the ground. What I like most about my painting is how the tree and stars turned out. To create the stars, I simple dipped a toothbrush in white paint & flicked the paint at the canvas. At one point, I got a bit too carried away doing this, and accidentally flicked a blob oh white paint on my canvas. I had to restart from the beginning. Overall, this painting looks very simple, but for me it was pretty challenging. I am happy with the outcome.