Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2025SYR01
Purchase Details
11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
You also receive…
An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
Medium- and large-format posters are available by custom order. Contact us for details.
Poem Inspiration Location
What Will Come Alive?
poster information
Description
What will come alive
from this blank piece of canvas?
My brush makes a mark
Many people who create face the blank page, the empty screen, the white canvas, the paused record button. There may be trepidation at the start. Or the excitement of finally beginning. Or the confusion of where this may go.
The Art Store is a place where I often go to buy my art supplies. Sometimes I go just to replenish materials. But I often walk the aisles and imagine what could come of that color of paint, or that special piece of paper, or that piece of charcoal. The moment comes with hand poised over the empty space, the brain whirring, an inhale – and then a mark is made.
I am a painter of steampunk and fantasy art, and I teach classes at The Art Store. For the poster I referenced their logo, which is white art tools on a red circle. I made the tools appear black and white, the way the store used to be painted in vertical black and white stripes. Then I included the building on a warped canvas with its new colors of black and red.
The poem speaks about things coming alive from the canvas, so I painted vines, a tree, a dragon, a mermaid, a snail, a polar bear, an octopus, an elf and a bird. For more whimsy, I had the artist’s brush drip green paint onto the parking lot rather than the canvas, and the vines wrapping around the brush as if they are influencing the outcome of the painting.