Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows;
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Homeric Hexameter. (Translated from Schiller.)
Inspiration for this week’s Illustration Friday prompt: Back in the eighties, while I was landlocked in Northern Germany, I kept a calendar on my wall with beautiful photos of the ocean, to remind me of home. This was one of the accompanying quotes that moves me now as much as it did then.
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love the way you have done the clouds. It’s so effective!
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Thanks Tanya. glad you stopped by!
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Beautiful – quote and art 🙂
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Need a new calendar – still landlocked!
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You always stretch the boundaries of what I think is possible, this is so cool!
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Oops – mixed up my replies, but I’m glad you liked it. Thanks.
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sigh….beautiful! Wunderbar….
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You missing water too?
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Wow! I would have never thought to do water with rectangles, but it’s perfect. Who knew right angles could look so fluid? Another gorgeous drawing.
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Thanks Hannah – did you submit? I get so busy that I only view the week’s postings once.
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No. I’m not participating in IF. (Although I love seeing the results.)
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Too bad!
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So peaceful… So pretty… 😀
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Thanks. I sure do miss the shore.
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