Annabel lee aesthetic

When I was 16, my mother presented me with this book. I was a young novice poet, writing and brooding about broken hearts and love and wounds and teen angsty things...and I loved the dark words of my (then) favorite poet, Edgar Allen Poe. I learned from a friend that today he'd be 201 years old. My little antique book was published in 1882...I don't think I own anything else that is quite that old, or a possession that I've had quite as long. My little Poe book has moved with me more times…

" For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee" - Poe I started a small series of paintings based on the poem "Annab... Annabel Lee

Annabel Lee... for my mom @Phyllis Church

Gina Iacob on Instagram: “"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee." . . . . . #edgarallanpoe #drawing #digitalart…”

Description Finally, the finished version of this piece: [link] I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. By that I mean that it satisfies me enough to stop thinking about it. I'm beginning to like my digital work much more than traditional, sadly, but I'm starting to mix the two medias. Not everything looks good digitally painted, and not everything looks good in watercolors; a philosophy that until recently I thought was untrue. I was happy to find this pose because I was going for a more…

Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe