The Writer's Feathers

© Sybille Sterk

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Writer's needs special feathers, also called quills. Sometimes it may appear as if the ink they use is in fact heart blood.

 This is a combo of lots of textures and vintage public domain images plus my own photograph, edited and mixed up in Photoshop.

There are two more to come in the next few days. In the meanwhile this one is available as prints and other merchandise in the usual outlets. :D

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© Sybille Sterk

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A new poem and a picture to go with it. All my own photographs plus free and bought resources. 

You can read the poem here.

On Society6:

On Redbubble:

The Way Back

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Illustration to go with my poem. The feathers and flowers are my own photographs, the little feather is a brush. 

Credit: ink flats detail by Loadus

Font: Amatic

Words: by me, full poem can be read here

All other images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

On Society6 below:

You and Me

© Sybille Sterk 

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Another conceptual illustration of one of my poems using photographs, textures and the poem itself. The poem can be read here in full.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

The font is Amatic.

the message

© Sybille Sterk 

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Image to illustrate my poem of the same name. New technique for me.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

The font is Amatic.

On Society6

On Redbubble

and check out my images on metal plates available on displa.io

on days like this

© Sybille Sterk

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I took this picture of a tulip (or rather what is left of it) a while back with the idea of decomposition and age in mind but when I tried to find a picture to go with my poem of the same name I came across it again. I hadn't done anything with it yet and it seemed the perfect partner... 

You can read the complete poem here

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go toBluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

She Walks In Beauty

© Sybille Sterk

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She Walks in Beauty 
She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellow'd to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

Lord Byron, 1814 

Picture taken earlier this year and edited a few days ago. I changed the colours and added the fog, I also edited out the people at the end of the path. I wanted a spooky ethereal image but in the end there was something so hopeful about it that I felt the poem was the perfect companion.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go toBluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

rainbow inside

© Sybille Sterk

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Words from my poem of the same name:

I shed this skin
and what is left will be the rainbow
that escaped me for so long
and I will hug myself
and hold it tight
and I will never let it go

Image of the Cambridgeshire countryside taken by me a while back.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

Available on Society6

my stupid heart

© Sybille Sterk

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Image to illustrate my poem of the same name. The poem can be read here. This is a photograph of crow's and duck feathers arranged in the shame of a wing. I edited the image with textures and colour adjustments to get this 'vintage' effect.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

one last kiss

© Sybille Sterk

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View from the back of the house when it was misty and foggy one day. Heavily edited to go with my poem of the same name.

Words from the poem:

one last kiss
scented with
almond bitterness
flavoured with
salty tears

shimmering in the light of the moon

Read the whole poem here

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

words from the dark

© Sybille Sterk

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Illustration for my poem "words from the dark" which can be read in full here.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

a song in the dark

© Sybille Sterk

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A photograph I took a couple of weekends ago. I love the autumn colours and the last of the fruit of the season. There's something so precious about this and it gives hope for another spring.

The words of the poem are mine:

the pyramids still stand
so why shouldn't I walk away
with a smile in my future and
a seed of hope
like a spark in the night
why shouldn't there be
a crown somewhere ahead or
at the very least
a rosebush
thorns and all

The whole poem can be read here

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

bitter taste

© Sybille Sterk

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only a hint of flowers remains
like a dream and a kiss
a tiny little speck of hope
a seed for a future far away

Words and photographs my own, textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

The complete poem can be read here.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). 

mysteries uncovered

© Sybille Sterk

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Taken at the park.

Words my own, you can read the whole poem here:

the heart  

sometimes recovers

in the glow of  

new love and

the warmth of  

a gaze that looks

at it with

an open mind and  

adoration

and takes it  

and all the baggage  

by the hand  

back into the light  

and  

into a new spring

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

Pearls of Wisdom

© Sybille Sterk

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A photograph through the window by my computer. It's been raining and foggy or both for over a week now, with brief periods of sunshine.

The poem is my own and can be read here

another moment of 

stillness

that holds us
above the abyss

safe
for just this instant

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

six degrees of desperation

© Sybille Sterk
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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00304

Inspired by the phrase 'the six degrees of separation' and my poem of the same name here

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Pierced

© Sybille Sterk

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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images use this code: SYST-00300

Image I took recently in the woods around Cambridge (near Byron's Pool, Grantchester). I stuck two feathers into the bark of an old oak. The feathers had been lying at the bottom of the tree trunk.

The words are from my poem truths to be found in the rain

rain drops tattooed the window pane
when I knew
the only truth to be found in this life
is the one carved out from your own skin

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

the long road home

© Sybille Sterk

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Home is a strange thing. It's made up of lots of little things and we never know what they are until we lose them and have to find them anew.

You can read the poem quoted in the image here

I lost my way

amongst the stars

infatuated by a

gleaming blue light

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00288

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

in dreams

© Sybille Sterk

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Image taken last weekend in Orford. Word are from my recent poem of the same name, you can read the full poem here.

the girl

who

woke with a vision

of a sky blue with clouds

that went on forever

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

The Sky Above

The Sky Above

© Sybille Sterk
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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00280

The image was taken at Holme Beach in Norfolk, England. Poem to go with the image is here

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).