I've completed part of a pre-assignment to Ardith Goodwin's upcoming Narrative class that starts next week. This includes choosing a painting I love, and writing a story about it.
I love the work of Rob Gonsalves having first seen it in a children's book titled "Imagine a Night". He considers his painting genre as 'Magic Realism' -- a mix of reality with magic. His work really does spark one's imagination by way of optical illusion.
This is my short story about one of his pieces titled 'Ladies of the Lake'.
Story: We always camp on full moon eves -- along a nearby lake under the cover of a great circle of elder pines. They stand so straight and tall as if sentries guarding a great gate. On overcast eves, we know the ladies come, but we can't see them. They make no sound, and there is no other light than that which comes from behind the cloud-cover above. Soundly we sleep, while the silent footfalls of parading dreamers awaken.
For fun, I've drawn one of my own photos (yes, I was dressed in a clown outfit) and added a wild and crazy background to accompany it for today's practice effort. As part of sketching the piece, it was split into four sections with two opposing diagonal lines. In terms of color choices, I've worked with color gradations for some shape sections. Can you believe, there are five major shapes in this effort? There really are -- circles, squares, trapezoids, triangles and spirals. I think the substrate is Biengfang Watercolor Paper (140 lb.). The materials used were Ohuhu markers, Micron 01 pigment ink pen, some red Stickles glitter glue for the nose, and a white Posca pen (for white dots on the face and to highlight eyes) and a yellow one (for yellow dots in the center of the flowers on the hat). There was no intention in working on this piece other than to have fun...and based on how it looks, I'd say well done!. One thing I learned is that blending with the Ohuhus i
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