Poetry in lines and colors

Speech. After a long silence. My last post dates back to may 2013. Such a long time without drawing! That's why for this week's illustration friday topic "Tail" I am forced to take out from my archive this 1997 pencil drawing. Do you like it?

A frightening tension is breaking the air, who has stolen Mrs Spring???

"I'm always running behind the time. Just like this train . Shaking into town. With the brakes complaining  ..."  Joni Mitchell - Just Like This Train

yesterday night, in a moment of relax from my job, I was thinking about an image to sketch for this week's Illustration Friday topic "Wild". I took my colored pencils and in a few minute a sort of sad blue yeti, sitting on a red chair, came to life on my piece of paper. It was not enough. Still the image lacked something... so I decided to put the poor tamed creature in chains and close it in a bottle, just like student Anselmus in E.T.A. Hoffmann's short story "Der Goldene Topf". Don't you feel a little bit of sympathy for this formerly wild strange elf?

"My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do" William Shakespeare , Henry VI 

“Black birds storms appear in the air,  a dark prophecy over Rouen sky” Last October I was asked to contribute with an illustration to a limited edition of a book celebrating 40 years of career of  Italian singer and composer Alice . I immediately thought about illustrating the few verses above, taken  from a song by Italian musician Mino diMartino , included in Alice ’s latest cd “Samsara”. The text of the song is an intimate, evocative portrait of Joan of Arc, strange topic enough for a pop music song! This is the genesis of this acrylic on paper (cm 30 x cm 25), which I titled “Il Cielo di Rouen” (Rouen Sky). Hope you like it!

This week's Illustration Friday topic Myth suggested me to take out from the drawer this very old piece (1982, I think) which I titled Proteus. The old sea-divinity of the Greek mythology who knows everything about present, past and future and is capable of changing form and aspect to escape inquiries  is here a sort of modern dancer or ice skater. Hiding his face with a mask he tries to run away to avoid answering questions, but who is chasing him?