New Art: Tiger Tiger Burning Bright
Tiger Tiger Burning Bright
I just finished work on a new artwork titled Tiger Tiger Burning Bright. The inspiration for this rather colorful rendition of a tiger is a poem by English poet William Blake. I first read this poem in a college class on English literature and it remains a favorite of mine. My artwork's title Tiger Tiger Burning Bright is taken from the first line of the poem.
This art began life as a standard color photograph I took of a tiger many years ago. It took some work, as well as three separate graphics programs (two from Adobe and one of my own design) to ascend from a fairly standard photograph of a tiger in a natural setting to the colorful illustration of the isolated tiger you see here. The original full-sized artwork is 6300 pixels wide by 5500 pixels tall.
I've used a greatly downsized, heavily cropped version of the art to illustrate this post. While I have not added this art to my own web site, you can see the uncropped version on its Redbubble product page:
Tiger Tiger Burning Bright artwork on Redbubble
The Tyger By William Blake
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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