Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Illustration Friday: Wilderness


What an evocative prompt! There's so many directions one could go with this. Thoreau talks about how everyone needs a little wilderness, and I would agree with that.
I know this looks like a whole bunch of other pictures I've made, but what I'm thinking about this, and the topic of "wilderness", is that in folk music, you can hear the wilderness of its roots. I play Scandanavian folk music, and I can hear the darkness and cold of the mountains and fjords. It's a wild place indeed. And in American folk music--you can hear Appalachia and the Ozarks in those old time traditions, and the swamps of Louisiana in Cajun music. It's all there, embedded in the music.

15 comments:

  1. I love your take on this! I think you're right...everyone needs a little wilderness.

    ReplyDelete
  2. very beautiful! Nice way to illustrate wilderness without trees!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Wow! I love how everything goes along with the flow of the music, the dress, the hair-- wonderful!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Vigorous, very wilderness, the beautiful technique suits the subject to a 'tee'.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Lovely - I can see, and almost feel and hear the wilderness in this!! Very well done!

    ReplyDelete
  6. You really are incredible. Really.

    Love Renee xoxo

    ReplyDelete
  7. Beautiful--loved what you had to say about the prompt, and loved the drawing.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Wow, what a beautiful sentiment, I'm a huge lover of all kinds of music and totally agree - love your line work and the background is just stunning!

    ReplyDelete
  9. this is amazing...there is so much going on here - so many layers - love it so much!

    ReplyDelete
  10. & the music is clearly in you & in your drawing hand...just lovely. so nice to visit your blog!! xo

    ReplyDelete
  11. Thanks for your encouraging comments. I love this drawing, music can evoke so many images in the mind it really is a transportation device!

    ReplyDelete
  12. You are a virtuoso of details...bravo!

    ReplyDelete