Monday, October 31, 2011

Tiger in Acrylic


This Jungle Cat is nearly life sized and painted on an A1 sized canvas board. I am, sort of, happy with the result even though I was lazy and did not put in enough details.

I think tigers are the most beautiful creatures in the big cat family. They look so adorable that you just want to hug them.

Just has a random thought!

First caveman to ever see a tiger:

Caveman: OOOOh such a cute kitty! Let me give you a hug!
Tiger:  Hmm ...Tempting but  I just ate!  

:D

William Blake wrote those immortal lines in praise of this cat:


TIGER, tiger, 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?
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

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