Bad Faery

Sunday, August 03, 2008

IMT: Shrink

This week’s Inspire Me Thursday prompt was ‘shrink’ which immediately made me think of Alice and here’s the result:

I was in two minds as to whether to post this or not as I really dislike it. But since I made the decision to embark on this Creative Every Day journey I feel that I should post some of the failures too. My problem stems from the background. On Friday night I spend a couple of hours experimenting with doing some coloured backgrounds that I could use as jumping off points for new pages. The pages I used for this spread ended up with a very pink background and I really should have toned it down before I started on this spread as the whole thing ended up far too sickly pink for my liking. 

I like the little bottle - cause it’s red not pink ;-)

The quote, by the bye, ‘Recall Alice when she was just small’ is from Jefferson Airplane’s song ‘White Rabbit’.

Comments:

it doesn’t look like a failure to me. it’s lovely! and i love alice in wonderland :-)

Posted by johanna on 08/04 at 04:24 AM

I’ve been stopping by your blog for weeks now
(in a non stalker type way :)
I love your words, your art work.
And I’m always disappointed when you haven’t had
time to post. :(
I love this art of Alice.
It’s fabulous and you are really talented.
I’ll be back .....
:)

Posted by Lotusflower on 08/04 at 10:00 AM

It’s perfect just the way it is. I have to introduce this art form to my grandkids, as I can see my GD doing just this. Awesome piece BF.
Delightful really. You capture Alice so well. I loved it at first glance.

Posted by Lynn on 08/04 at 06:48 PM

Humm? Shrink. I probably would have put some one on a therapist’s couch. LOL

Posted by Lynn on 08/04 at 06:49 PM

I like it just as it is too, pink and all.  Really charming.

Sorry to hear you have bad weather too - the eclipse was lost on us too!  Makes me half long to emigrate… Tuscany perhaps, or California....

Posted by Elizabeth on 08/04 at 11:06 PM

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to comment.

Lotusflower - don’t be shy, feedback is welcome:)

Elizabeth - good to see you back in cyberspace. Tuscany sounds good to me! What can I say, I’m an old world girl;)

Lynn - I think your grandkids are very lucky to have you:)

And you should all visit Johanna’s blog for moody and dreamy art!

Posted by Bad Faery on 08/05 at 04:46 PM

Hi BF :)
Sticks head shyly round BF’s art studio door :)
I saw this
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aRF4bsTToyk
on youtube.
Heh heh.
I can’t decide if she is
a) drunk
b) stoned
Or
c)
away the the faeires LOL
Ah well it made me laugh this rainy ( so called)
summer day
:)
Anna
xxxx

Posted by Anna on 08/07 at 03:03 PM

All the details are great - love this pink bottle, really neat!

Posted by delph on 08/07 at 06:16 PM

I like your bottle too.  The whole layout is fun.

Posted by Deb G on 08/09 at 03:03 AM

Thanks BF...I am so lucky to have them!!!!!!!!!!!! truely blessed.

Posted by Lynn on 08/09 at 05:08 PM

I thought of Alice first, too.  I can see where you might not like all the pinkness, I’m not a pink person either, but it still turned out great.

And I like the bottle best of all, too.

Posted by rowena on 08/09 at 07:37 PM

i love the RED bottle as well ~ I love
your entire illustration ~ it is stunning:)

and i love those RUBY RED shoes too ~
so determined to go find adventure:)

Posted by maddie on 08/10 at 04:59 PM

Actually I like this. But then I love Red and Pink. :))

Posted by Cris in Oregon on 08/28 at 05:09 PM

the red bottle is lovely! your illustration, like rowena said, is absolutely stunning :)

Posted by Delphino on 08/31 at 03:54 PM

I think the pink’s just right for Alice! I think the whole page is lovely!
This is my first visit, I just fell in love with the photograph of the little fluffy white owl and the other wonderful birds you saw!

Posted by Jane on 09/23 at 12:39 PM

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