TITLE:Emily - Summer MEDIUM: colored pencil on digital collage SIZE: 17" x 13.5"
This portrait followed my "Winter" piece of Emily Dickinson in my "Seasons Series" (inspired by the poems of the Belle of Amherst). Similar to her predecessor, I took a somewhat surreal take on the imagery and composition of this piece --more so, I feel, than the two that followed.
As I often do with my work-in-progress, I shared this piece in it's very early stages on my daily blog, where a writer-friend said she was "not object to me portraying Emily naked but she felt she wanted to wrap a shawl around her to protect her." I complied.
Prints of Kevin Slattery's "Emily: Seasons Series" are available for $25.00 each (including shipping.) They are 8.5 x 11 inches in size. Printed on high-quality archival paper, each print is reinforced with an acid-free backing board and packaged in a plastic mylar sleeve. The image, visually-centered with a white border, accomodates immediate framing. You can save $40.00 when you purchase all four. Sale details HERE.
