Library Books

Sorry for the blurriness of the above photographs but they weren’t particularly interesting books. I picked them out from the section of english literature critiques. They only have solid colored covers except for the one about Lord Byron that had a lion embossed on it.

This one went into Golding: The Lord of the Flies by John S. Whitley. I only pictured the front of this gift insert because I left the back blank.

This one had the appearace of a love letter because the book was a collcetion of letter exchanged between the poet W.B. Yeats and Margot Ruddock. The name of the book is Ah, Sweet Dancer.

I thought about making a collague of nude figures to accompony this collection of raunchy poetry, but in the end I decided to go with a more tasteful pun on the tittle as I did with the “Lord of the Flies.”

The book was Lord Byron by Paul G. Trueblood and I learned a lot of scanalous things about this famous author from skimming through the pages but didn’t get a lot of inspiration from it. Ironically, this insert was probably my favorite although I had the least direction about what I wanted to do so I ended up doodling a heart pattern.

Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome was a good choice for me because I love his story “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” and I knew what I wanted to draw right away. I wasn’t completely pleased with how it came out with colored pencils.