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[rayheinrich]

Reads to me like small town America in the summer. Picturesque and lovely. Thanks for sharing!

I wrote this poem a long time ago for a dear love of mine.
I came across it recently and decided to make an image for it.
Considering the circumstances, and that this poem reads a bit
like a "Dick and Jane" reading primer, I decided to use kid's
crayons and white poster board. Not satisfied, I scanned it
and mapped the colors to a more limited palette. There's another
of my images on PigPen that's derived using a similar process:
http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/showthread.php?tid=12785

And yes, it's a small town (though maybe not that picturesque).

Ray, The sunflower looks like it was rendered in watercolor more than crayon. It must be the color averaging. The visual and written media pair well!

Yes, it was the color averaging (actually mapping), see above.

I don't know how you post the different media together. I have tried to post one of my paintings with a poem, but I fail to understand the mechanics of doing it on this site. I'm not very computer savvy./Chris

If you have the picture's web location (URL), you just put a square bracketed
'img' on the front and a '/img' on the end. Here's what I typed to get
the above image of Baytown (my industrially themed home town and the home
of North America's largest petroleum refinery the edge of which sits about six
blocks from the house):

Code:

[font=Courier]
And yes, it's a small town (though maybe not that picturesque):
[/font]
[img]http://wordbiscuit.com/images/baytown072.jpg[/img]