This is the painting I am working on for the upcoming art show with the theme of Shakespeare's play "Midsummer Night's Dream". On May 23, I continued working with the layout, concentrating (and correcting) the text around the edges of the canvas. Each side is a line from the poem that I am using as the basis for the painting: "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine." I am planning to paint the borders to look like a frame. And within the frame I am going to paint the six different types of poems names in the painting, in the style of botanical illustrations. You can see the labels on each rectangle: wild thyme, oxlips, nodding violets, woodbine, musk-roses, and eglantine. I this point, I was just concentrating on straightening out the placement of the lettering. This part is messy and also tedious, but it has to be done because the text is an important part of the painting. To be continued. . . .
No comments:
Post a Comment