Reality Blurred By Dream, Dream Blurred By Reality

Now I lay me down

The theme for this weeks Creative Tuesday is Healthy.  Well, I had trouble thinking of something healthy.  No, that's not entirely true, I thought of tons of things that are healthy, however, I couldn't think of anything healthy that I could actually draw or paint.

I had this neat idea of a woman making her way into a lake of milk, where at closer look the sandy shore was really a mix of Kashi and Grape Nuts, a few palm trees hanging bananas, oranges and of course some fish , multi colored, perhaps trout, swimming underneath the milky sea, just to add some Omega-3 to the healthy buffet.  But, nope.  Couldn't get it looking the way I wanted to.

So, seeing most doctors feel that sleep is both healthy and necessary to the human body, and seeing I couldn't figure out how to properly convey sleep, without the whole little boy sleeping in bed with a glow-in-the-dark crescent moon pasted to his wall, perhaps with his mother peeking in through the cracked door, letting just a trickling of the hallway light creep in.  But yeah, there was no way I'd pull that one off, the bed ok, the crescent moon, yep, the shadowy space, door and trickling of light, yep, the little boy, maybe, seeing he'd be under covers, but the mom, nope.

Well, this long intro aside, I thought of dreams, which I totally knew I could pull off.  And that's where this piece came from.  Phew….

The Castle in the Clouds

I really like how these pieces came out, as I do a few others I'll post in the next couple days after I have a moment or two to touch them up.  I was looking for another fantasy-inspired scene and love what I got in the first one.  It's a castle, in the clouds in the distance.  But what I love about these two pieces when taken together is how that these two paintings are identical, yet it's hard to tell.  In fact I love how a bit of alteration to color scheme and deepness of color can in fact completely alter a scene.  In this case the second seems much closer than the first which appears at distance.  Anyhow, thought I'd share some of my thoughts on these, in addition to the paintings themselves.

Magnetism of Spectral Winds

Spread of Avarice

Within the Realm of Rainbows

The Professor as Mortician

To truly teach, the student must be open
To truly instruct, the student must completely trust
To truly learn, the student must be willing to let a part of him die.

The Musical Box