A few months ago I found these brilliant art prints on Etsy that paired striking illustrations with an impressive list of eloquent quotes and now I get to offer one of Obvious State‘s creations as a giveaway in honour of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
What is Included in the Giveaway:
One participant will win one unframed F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote Art Print. The winner gets to choose between two Fitzgerald prints created by Obvious State.
How to Enter the F. Scott Fitzgerald Giveaway:
You must leave at least one comment on this post in order to win. Giveaway runs from May 10th – 31st.
The Prints
Print Title: “Martini“
Quote: They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
Source: This Side of Paradise
Medium: Digital illustration fine art print
Size: 13×19 inches with white border
Paper: Heavy premium archival paper
Finish: Matte, slightly textured
Print Title: “Tear“
Quote: Lie to me by moonlight. Do a fabulous story.
Source: The Offshore Pirate
Medium: Digital illustration fine art print
Size: 13×19 inches with white border
Paper: Heavy premium 270 gsm archival paper
Finish: Matte, slightly textured
The Artist
Evan Robertson’s creations begin with his bookshelf. Starting with the underlined passages in his favourite paperbacks, he then brainstorms possible companion images. Sometimes it only takes a few sketches, other times it takes dozens before he discovers the right one. From there, he creates a master sketch that he finalizes on the computer.
Robertson honours each author’s well-chosen words with his own thoughtful creative images. I appreciate the precision of the illustrations — they are each exactly what they need to be. Some prints are stark and spare and others are meticulously detailed.
Besides Fitzgerald, the list of authors runs like this — Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, ee cummings,T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Keats, Jack London, George Orwell, Edgar Allen Poe, Kurt Vonegut, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf — and it keeps going.
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I have to confess that I had to look up “other” books to answer this question. I’ve read The Great Gatsby and enjoyed it. I was also reminded of Bernice Bobs Her Hair, another of his stories I enjoyed.
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
The Great Gatsby
I love Gatsby!
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
I love those prints! There’s a great Tolstoy one from Anna Karenina, and also a nice T.S. Eliot one from J. Alfred Prufrock.
I know — there are so many good ones! I kind of want to line an entire room with them.
I love this give-away! My favorite Gatsby character is…Gatsby