"the return makes one love the farewell" - Alfred de Musset
The Illustration Friday topic this week is FAREWELL. After ciphering a bit about how to portray that idea without sketching a person waving, I remembered the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. He would fade away until nothing was visible but his big smiling mouth.
I was able to recreate that idea with a layer of vellum on top of a brightly colored girl - cutting out the mouth area allowed her face to be hazy while her lips remained vibrant!
Connor calls this girl Watermelon Head. . .
Linking to Play Date Cafe Challenge,
17 comments:
She looks great and I think it's a good goodbey painting.
Liefs, Melanie
A clever idea! The comment about the watermelon made me giggle!
Wow, I love how you used the vellum to express farewell! Love your lady!
That is stellar! Her eyes are beautiful and the coloring and shading amazing.
Cool idea! I like how she looks through the vellum...just barely visible except for those luscious lips.
The colour combination is wonderful yet again and I am feeling very inspired by you. Thanks for sharing.
ManonX
Beautiful! She has a very thoughtful expression. Dropping by from Paper Saturdays :)
I love the overlay idea... it has my brain racing in all sorts of directions here.... thanks for the inspiration... no doubt I will get bugger all done now because i will be thinking of this so i will direct all complaints in your direction...xx
Awesome journal page! I LOVE the vellum! Thanks for playing at The Play Date Cafe.
love the vellum idea, so creative! The watermelon comment is funny! :)
What a great idea! I love the contrast between her brighly coloured lips and the hazy image. Wonderful work!
Lovely creation ~ she is very dynamic and love the color combo ~ ^_^
What a fun and very clever idea. Beautiful project. :)
What an amazing card - love the idea and LOVE the drawing!!! Stunning!
What an interesting idea and it came out to be fascinating and lovely! :)
oh wonderful!
What an amazing piece of artwork! I adore the bold lines you used - her lips are especially perfect! Love the way you pulled in this week's challenge colors, too! So glad you could join us for this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge!
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