Friday, June 19, 2009

A fairy tale without fairies

cat tale

This is an exercise for the Illustration and text interpretation course at Centro Cultural São Paulo.

Assignment: to create a few illustrations, without any kind of text, respecting the narrative structure of a fairy tale: absentation / confrontation (with evil) / counter-action (good beats the hell out of evil, evil dies) / celebration.

This should read as following:

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

1, 2: absentation
3: evil
4, 6, 7: counter-action
8: evil dies
9: celebration

Technique:

1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9: non-solved watercolor + permanent ink pen -> cut and paste over Kraft paper -> cut and paste over black foam board;

3, 8: non-solved watercolor over black foam board.

3 comments on “A fairy tale without fairies”

  1. conto de gato | Carolina Vigna-Maru wrote:

    [...] no meu portfolio o último exercício do curso de ilustração. A proposta foi criar ilustrações sem qualquer tipo [...]

  2. Larissa wrote:

    Gostei! Estava eu à procura de informações sobre lagartixa, pois tenho uma no meu quarto a explorar o ar condicionado e dei com este trabalho fantástico!
    Continue Carolina!

  3. Carolina Vigna-Maru wrote:

    Larissa,
    Obrigada, de coração!
    Bjs

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