Final Piece

I started with a sketch of what I wanted to do for the final. I wanted to keep going with my shadow illustration because it was really interesting working with a big piece. I was sad that the paper crumpled though, so I decided to go with making a frame and ready some air dry clay. Since I enjoyed the air dry clay as this new medium, I wanted to explore it more and how it can work for this piece. In the sketch above the green would be air dry clay. So Nightmare would appear to be oozing out dream matter from his eye. Yum.

Made from the finest woods home depot has to offer, I built a frame that resembles the sketch size. Was it a challenge? Yes.... But there is a first time for everything. I liked how it came out and can't wait to apply the illustration to it.

Here is Nightmare's "portrait". This will be copied over to the frame. I'm not cutting the paper, but instead redrawing it. This serves as my 50% as inspiration and is the same art that will be applied yo the wood.

Here is the completed piece! I used the dyed fabric from my wax challenge for his eye. It gave it some depth and a galaxy / starry feel. Around the main Nightmare are cloudy purple and blue auras from other shadows. The light colors and layering technique was accomplished with watercolors and the colors were brought out with a few layers of gel medium.  The gel medium was also used for the dripping pink/ red matter. Looks wet, but is completely dry!

I wanted to keep the grain of the wood visible in some places because of the way it contrasted with the bright colors. It also provided a root to something "earthy" when the overall feel the piece gives off is "celestial" or even "other worldly".