Friday, 11 August 2006

Illustration Friday - Play


This is an illustration entitled 'March past of the kitchen utensils', and shows a scene from Aristophanes' play 'The Wasps'.

Vaughan Williams has also written a piece based on 'The Wasps', and one of the movements has the same title as my painting (though I have to admit he did it first!)

For anyone unfamiliar with the play, I really really recommend it - it's surreal and totally mad!

The characters at the bottom of my piece are the wasps themselves. They aren't insects, just jury members ...
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18 comments:

  1. Liz Jones11 August 2006 at 15:34

    Lovely!!

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  3. BGOZ11 August 2006 at 17:01

    Hey, this is a great illustration. Haven't seen the play, but I am intrigued.

    :)=

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  4. chacha11 August 2006 at 17:17

    that is beautiful. i love the texture and how soft it looks. did you do that with colored pencils?? great job!!

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  5. Amy Zaleski11 August 2006 at 17:34

    This is pretty darn awe inspiring. Did you do all the cross hatching and then color on top? It really is an amazing piece of work. You should be proud!

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  6. Cathy11 August 2006 at 17:42

    Thanks for your kind comments everyone! If anyone's interested, what I do is put the background colour down first and then the cross-hatching on top with watercolour. Using brushes which come to a very fine point!

    Very neurotic, I know ...

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  7. String11 August 2006 at 17:52

    This is a very cool feeling composition, I love the colours.

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  8. Natura11 August 2006 at 18:55

    Great linework and design!

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  9. AscenderRisesAbove12 August 2006 at 00:03

    very nice; love the happy playful colors

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  10. Tiger Mouse12 August 2006 at 11:34

    Cool - that's a good interpretation of "play"! I think I studied the play long ago at high school...

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  11. miragee12 August 2006 at 14:24

    This is a gorgeous illo!

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  12. murphy girl13 August 2006 at 03:39

    as is this (surreal and totaly mad, that is)! fantastic!

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  13. georg14 August 2006 at 10:23

    What a beautiful image! You have a very personal style, I love it!

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  14. Mauricio15 August 2006 at 00:12

    So beautifull,

    Congratulations

    hugs from brazil

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  15. ValGalArt15 August 2006 at 02:53

    absolutely inspired! i love this!!!

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  16. Kay Aker17 August 2006 at 03:05

    This is so beautifully done!

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  17. Lee17 August 2006 at 14:07

    this is excellent cas...nice accompanying post too :)

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  18. theape19 August 2006 at 16:57

    Nice work!

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