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Word portraits of famous authors: http://www.johnsokol-artist-author.com/id9.html Word Portraits, Word Portrait, The Sound And The Fury, Word Art Drawings, Typographic Portrait, Author Portraits, Typography Portrait, Type Faces, Text Portrait

Artist John Sokol makes portraits of famous authors using words from their writings to form images. Pictured above is William Faulkner with text from his novel The Sound and the Fury. Other portraits that you can see at the link include Walt Whitman, Eudora Welty, James Joyce, and John Keats. Link -via Dude Craft...

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Janie Poole portraits Poetry Painting, Poesia Visual, Seni Dan Kraf, Images And Words, Uk Artist, Gcse Art, Ap Art, Text Art, Green Building

This is a close up of the eye of a larger portrait of Sophie that I made between May 2010 and January 2011. The whole painting is made from poems which Sophie chose. They have personal significance to her and have therfore become part of her. The text was printed using a standard printer from a computer which was then dissected taking out the spacing between each line as it was applied. Using word software the tone on the text and its background was altered according to the part of the…

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