To The Shrike
#3 of lyric poetry here's some ekphrastic poetry, with inspiration taken from a sumi-e painting done by legendary samurai, miyamoto musashi. the painting in question is titled shrike on a withered branch.
The Descent (2); It's a Kit.
They moved from a pencil and acrylic style to something more modern sumi-e. the visuals are beautiful. i flip through it a bit. okay. with a snap, i shake the pages back to the beginning. the pages ruffle under my thumb.
The Fertile Clearing
She tried sumi-e, but with her swelling midsection she couldn't sit at any of the tables without being so far away from the paper, and her feet were too tender to stand and paint.
Shin Transformaster
He also motioned over to a scroll on the floor now with ink splattered onto the stone around it- he had drawn a sumi-e illustration of her absolute mess of a hybrid form, so he could have a laugh at her expense later on too.