William Blake

Developing my old wives' tale brief to have a stronger narrative at the moment and I decided to have a look at William Blake. I studied him back in A-level English and I vividly remember his beautiful illustrations that accompanied his work. Below is a small selection of these illustrations.

http://www.andrewgrahamdixon.com/archive/index/26

http://www.gailgastfield.com/mhh/mhh3.jpg

http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper1313/stills/egnh687j.jpg

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/otherart/decpage.htm

http://sites.google.com/site/mrtomhouse2/poemaudiosandilluminations

http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/Blake_s_Songs_Of_Innocence_And_Experience-9781854377296.html

I do not want to use colour in my versions as I want to keep it fitting with the bottle as best I can. However I am open to the idea of doing a watercolour piece and then greyscaling it.

One element I definitely want to take away from these pieces is the relationship between the words and the images - they become one and fit in and around each other. Is a beautiful image of work.