Illustration Assignment - Lymric

Music Appreciation - by Reina Elizondo

This was for an assignment to choose from some limericks and illustrate one of them. I chose 'There was an old man with a flute' by Edward Lear. This was done with pen and ink washes on watercolor paper.

Revised Illustration

An illustration of the excerpt  :

Cynthia Rylant. The Islander. (DK, 1998.) 

I was a boy when I met the mermaid, and, of course, no one believed me. It didn’t matter. I was a solitary boy — lonely, actually — and had long given up on anyone understanding what I said or how I felt. I had lived with my grandfather for three years, and he was a kind and gentle man, but he could not see into a boy’s world and so could not do much more than love me.

Illustration Assignment: Ink

An illustration of the excerpt  :

Cynthia Rylant. The Islander. (DK, 1998.) 

I was a boy when I met the mermaid, and, of course, no one believed me. It didn’t matter. I was a solitary boy — lonely, actually — and had long given up on anyone understanding what I said or how I felt. I had lived with my grandfather for three years, and he was a kind and gentle man, but he could not see into a boy’s world and so could not do much more than love me.

I will be posting the revised version later.