{"id":1879,"date":"2011-02-03T06:44:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2011-02-03T10:59:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:59:45","slug":"alice-in-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"Alice in Wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the Lovers show is up (look for my Art Walk review with my piece in the Hive show next Friday) the time has come to worry about the next show. \u00a0Of course, I’d been trying to wrap my brain around it for a while. \u00a0 Once again I misunderstood the theme. \u00a0In the first materials I received (months ago) about the show it was called “Alice II.” \u00a0I mistook this to mean we’d be imagining an Alice in Wonderland sequel, which of course already exists in Through the Looking Glass. \u00a0Eventually I realized that the “II” just meant that this was the second year the hive would be doing an Alice themed show – and the artwork did not have to reflect that fact. \u00a0So, I tossed out the bad ideas I’d been sketching up – such as making a mock movie poster with severed rabbit ears making the “II” of the “Alice II” – an allusion to the Saw II poster using severed fingers for the roman numerals.<\/p>\n

While still working under the misunderstanding I showed these ideas to Sam and she suggested I have an Asian Alice doing the peace sign for the roman numerals. \u00a0I thought this was not any worse than my ideas so far and we did some test shots. \u00a0After realizing that “II” would have nothing to do with the artwork I decided to take the pose down a different (and more interesting) path. \u00a0In the new Alice, the young girl in question is Asian and has fallen down the rabbit hole with her portable camera. \u00a0I thought this was fitting as young girls in Japan right now are wearing clothing that is sometimes similar to Alice’s original outfit. The crappy Xerox scan of my outlined sketch is what I have begun to work with on canvas as of yesterday. \u00a0Is it too obvious who is holding the camera…or not obvious enough? \u00a0The rabbit looks rather unanimated – but I could not figure out a way at that angle to show a worried open mouth that didn’t look cartoony. \u00a0Other than the playing cards, I’m trying to avoid the Disney cartoon look.<\/p>\n

This is also going to be the first time I’ve ever tried to paint a forest floor – something which is worrying me the most out of all the elements in the painting (but will likely receive the least scrutiny upon completion).<\/p>\n

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Now that the Lovers show is up (look for my Art Walk review with my piece in the Hive show next Friday) the time has come to worry about the next show. \u00a0Of course, I’d been trying to wrap my brain around it for a while. \u00a0 Once again I misunderstood the theme. \u00a0In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}