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| Week 3 - Children's Books Assignment |
For Week 3 of
Lilla Roger's class, Make Art That Sells, it was especially great to be focusing on picture books! On Monday, we received our mini-exercise, and I have to admit I was a bit thrown when our subject was snails. I explored some character options, mostly of the happy variety.
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| mini-exercise -snail character sketches |
Then on Wednesday we received the details of the main assignment. We were to do a cover with hand drawn type, or a double page spread for the Hans Christian Andersen tale,
The Snail and the Rose Tree. It turns out the story was not happy at all. This snail is ornery, grumpy, and quite judgmental of the frilly rose. He says, “The
world is nothing to me. What have I to do with the world? I have enough
to do with myself, and enough in myself". The snail says he spits on the world, and future snails crept into their houses and spat at the world. This sounds like some slugs I have known, who invaded my home, and left slime trails on my shoes. I've had to put epson salt along the baseboards. I hadn't seen one inside for over a year. And then, I kid you not, the day I read the assignment, I see a slug halfway up my closet door! So, after that drama, back to the drawing board......
In my version, since this snail thinks he is above everyone, he wears a little crown, (although he has no royal blood). I call him Joffery.
I was determined to get back to my acrylics this week, and sketched this
onto wood board. But, as I was still figuring out colors I knew there
was no way I'd finish in time, so I scanned it in, and colored it digitally.
1 comment:
Angela, I love it! I think it's far better that it's not a happy, smiling snail; so much more personality this way. The cuffs and the frilly neck and the triangles at the bottom and all the little texture bits... just wonderful!
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