Men Who March Away BY THOMAS HARDY What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing gray, Leaving all that here can win us; What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away? Is it a purblind prank, O think you, Friend ... Read more

We’ve been a bit late getting the Christmas season started at home this year, but here’s last year’s seasonal painting: I’ll be painting a cheeky new picture this year and will share once it’s completed.

This is for my current G7 ELL class but welcome anybody else to join in too. We are studying World War I poetry and the link below will take you to a poem by Siegfried Sassoon that is a little too long to study in class. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57220/counter-attack

“Ypres” is a poem by Laurence Binyon(1869-1943), he was a prolific English poet and scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose career spanned 50 years. During this time, he authored numerous poetry collections and plays, two historical biographies, and several art history volumes, including books on the works of Asian artists, English ... Read more

  “The Dead” is a Shakespearean sonnet (consisting of three quatrains and a couplet), which expresses mourning and praise for the lives lost in war through beautiful imagery and contrasts. The poem is divided into two main parts. The first part(two quatrain)depicts the vivid life experiences of the deceased before their passing – joy, sorrow, ... Read more

Maoji was an alien cat-creature thing. Once, an accident left her face, two paws and back scarred permanently, while the other two paws and tail fell off completely. Now Maoji is a cyborg. She always wears a metal mask, usually with a demon face pattern. She usually wears a pair of metal wings and prosthetic ... Read more

So basically it’s like the do you believe in magic unit, but with a sci-fi theme to make it more interesting. If you’re interested, please make a character for it and tell meh! Don’t get too carried away with backstory. My idea so everyone can contribute equally (except me I’m boss :3) is that everyone’s ... Read more

“In Flanders fields”is a poem by John Mccrae (1872-1981) Born in Guelph, Ontario, a Canadian poet, soldier, and physician, this poem is written in a perspective of dead peoples, and also have the poppies, which symbols death, at the field and restate it in the end of the poem, connecting the whole poem together.  The ... Read more

This art was inspired by an old pizza delivery box that I used to protect the floor during a previous painting project. Since the bulk of the pigment that had bled onto the box was GREEN, I thought it might make a nice background for a GREEN GATORS artwork. Twenty minutes later, the crudely sketched ... Read more

A preview of Monday’s seminar and questions you might want to think about. For those who didn’t bring the poems home, this is the poem: I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and ... Read more