I am SUPER excited to post this here... it feels like the very first
well thought out and completed piece straight out of my brain even
though I have made a few other pieces in the recent. This one is
definitely the biggest size I've worked on so far.
I enrolled in an illustration class recently to keep myself sane and
busy during the chaos of my life. We have to pick a theme of sorts and
make 3 illustrations of it - after pulling my hair out and driving my
instructor insane I settled on the theme of Cinderella. One, because to
me, the story demonstrates the all-so-easily-forgotten lesson of "good
things happen to good people." I feel that this is particularly easy to
forget in today's society where we see all around us someone who cuts
corners and yet gets to the top while you try to stand by your morals.
We were given free reign except that there should be a reason for any colour used...
Because I am a greedy and tend to bite off more than I chew I envisioned
this grandose series which incorporated Art Nouveau, stained glass
colours and still telling you the story of Cinderella in to a tiny 15 x
20" board...which was not quite possible from where I stood. Either way I
managed to poop this out:
Unfortunately you can't REALLY see the glitter or the metallic paint but it's there... :(
This is about 15x20" with pencil crayons and watercolours. Thank
goodness the watercolour paint came from the dollar store because it has
about 7 layers of paint on this thing. I didn't plan out the media as
carefully as I had planned the line art and with each layer I made an
error which could only be saved by painting the whole thing again.
I wanted the shape to look like a grandfather's clock from afar, with
the each circle depicting a scene from the movie and the characters.
There is a light border around the piece done in pencil crayon which
gives it a nice frame without being intrusive.
The whole thing - I'm not going to go through each element - leads to
that if you keep your chin up, keep your eye on the goal and work
towards it honestly, miracles can happen.
I may do a little vid to shoe the glitter. XD OR maybe, the video will have all 3 pieces...?
Due to the many layers of paint the poor illustration board became
severely warped, so I decided to paint the back with leftover acrylic
paint to compensate or cancle out the warping -which failed. I learned
later that if you put a huge "X" and a "+" on the back with gesso, it
helps with the warping (actually I hate to mention it but my teacher had
mentioned this helpful tip, and like a good student I wrote it down,
but like the genius I am forgot all about reviewing my notes filled with
tips from my instructor when I was working on this pieces)
Hope you like! there are two more to come so stay tuned!
XO
