Thursday, April 8, 2010

Lullabies & Fairy Tales 3 - Pool of Tears, Watercolor


I have always been fascinated with Lewis Carroll and the whole world of "Literary Nonsense".  I remember Carroll's "Alice's Adventure Undeground" with an illustration by John Tenniel when I was in Junior High. It was one of those books in the library, besides Gustave Dore's Ryme of the Ancient Mariner, that I kept on opening.

"Pool of Tears" is a watercolor piece I just finished last night. Took me about 4 hours to finally decide to put down my brush.

A special note to add is that the White Rabbit on the painting was inspired by a good friend of mine, Dante. I met Dante together with his pal Zoe thru another good friend and a brilliant artist, Emily Grandin, who introduced me to them fine lovable folks. Thanks Emily. Oh, and Thank you, Dante, for posing for me. :)




Dante as the White Rabbit



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5 comments:

Valerie said...

of course, corn pops to fuel the creative fire! nice work :)

Unknown said...

wow, just found your blog.. I love the concept of this piece as well as the execution of it. :)

Great job!

Bong Redila said...

@ Val thanks, Valerie.

Bong Redila said...

@Carrie. Salamat. :D

Ramel said...

Discovered your blog by chance and WOW! i love your watercolors man! I dabble in water colors as well! very inspirational pics here!