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The Owl and the Pussy-cat

I'm not very good at art but I enjoy drawing and painting so I thought I'd try to illustrate Edward Lear's poem "The Owl ond the Pussy Cat". Doing this has made me admire my illustrators even more than I did already. It's so hard to make the characters look the same in all the pictures. I'll never manage to do that well enough to illustrate by own books..

.The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
   In a beautiful pea-green boat,

The owl and the pussy-cat went to sea
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
   Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
   And sang to a small guitar,

The owl looked up
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
    What a beautiful Pussy you are,
         You are,
         You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
   How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
   But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
   To the land where the Bong-Tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
   With a ring at the end of his nose,
             His nose,
             His nose,
   With a ring at the end of his nose.

There in a wood

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
   Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
   By the Turkey who lives on the hill.

The turkey who lived on the hill
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
   Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,

They danced by the light of the moon
   They danced by the light of the moon,
             The moon,
             The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

Edward Lear

 

 

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