(naarmamo) Ideas in pictures.

[capri0mni]

I know I posted five of these the other day, but I added a beginning and an end, and I wanted to see them all together, to see them as a whole.



As I said before, each picture represents a key turning point in folktales* when the energy shifts, and the hero faces a change.

If I'd had a brush and canvas, I would have aimed to make these purely abstract, and to show the shifts in energy through my brush stroke and texture. But MS Paint makes flat, smooth images. Still, I was inspired by that show on Marc Rothko, and I tried to at least make my colors the characters in this wee drama, the way he said he did in his paintings.

I made a special point of copying the colors from the Otherworld Being's heart so that they would match exactly with the glowing light in the first pic, the light in the hold of the ship in the sixth pic, and the colors of the seeds and plants in the seventh pic.

That part was fun. All the thinking and figuring and fiddling was exhausting. So tomorrow, I may start a series of doodles and/or na'arts based on the preloaded fonts in my computer...

*(and, by extension, all stories, since modern novels and even documentaries follow the same narrative structure laid out by our Ancestors)

Comments

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

GORGEOUS.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That's quite a compliment, considering the source...

[jekesta]

They look so beautiful all together that way. And I do love how you used the colours from picture to picture, and just how emotive they all are. Lovely:):):):):):) x

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I didn't come up with the colors until "The Exchange." And now, I'm thinking of going back to my "Encounter" pic, to retrofit those colors into the clouds and the troll-being's eye...

But that'd be too fiddly.

... maybe later.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I love this set of pictures and the narrative running through them was obvious to me even before you put it into words. Thank you for sharing. :-)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I'm glad they worked...