imagination's swirling exuberance

 HELLO!

So, here comes the new work from the series Wild Fantasy which was developing for a quite long amount of time. I'm not even sure how long this post will be, it definitely will be pretty long (I hope you won't feel bored during reading this).

Before I get stuck in showing the creative process of today's work let me remind You what is Wild Fantasy. This series consists of the black-and-white pictures with colourful accent which were made with pens. All of them happened because of ideas recorded on paper as doodles - ideas showing ladies in outfits with colourful accent with animals, and sometimes with flowers (it depends from the background I chose for the picture - sometimes it's the environment, sometimes it's architecture). So far I've created images with colours like green, blue, red, and violet. Actually, back in 2023 I intended to make a picture with the yellow accent. Due to the certain circumstances, I've reached a conclusion that it would be better to realise a picture with violet accent first, and save the yellow one for later.

So now, let's start the long story about the Wild Fantasy with yellow accent.

Enjoy!

This doodle was the starting point. Here you see long-haired lady with white top, and a full-length skirt with spiral ornament. This skirt was supposed to be yellow. As for spiral ornament - it's supposed to be Klimt's reference. I imagined this particular figure surrounded by an environment in the style of Art Nouveau.

Time passed, and figure's hair shortened, colour of them became lighter. It wasn't the only change. 

As you can see on the above picture a full-length skirt turned into long, flowing trousers (still yellow, still with spiral ornament), and also a black waistcoat replaced white top. On the right side of the above picture there's also the first idea for a design of a whole image. Lady in trousers is standing next to the secessionist door. The main inspiration behind those door was the door of Glass artist Sterner's house and workshop in Ixelles in Belgium. 

Here you see various hairstyles inspired by fashionable hairstyles in 1920s.
I was practising here a little bit.

Above you can see how I planned to draw this picture. I've got problems with choosing a proper pose of my model. I intended to show her petting with one of her hands an imaginary serval coming out of a stained glass window in the doors. Easier said that done.

When I was trying to drawing a picture, I struggled with doing this idea a justice. I felt unable to continue this. What's more I doubted in this design, and unfortunately I understood I don't like this vision anymore. 

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Soon afterwards I started thinking about drawing the yellow one again. I tried to come up to the subject in different way. When it comes to clothes, I decided to drop waistcoat. Below you can see my doodles which includes yellow romper (trousers-part would still have spiral ornament).

Except for rompers I also made a doodle with white blouse & long yellow trousers (it's a doodle marked as "B"). And this design was for me like a breath of fresh air. I felt like that's it.

So I swung into action, and started drawing.

Previously I wanted to draw my model next to the door. This time I drew her in the interior standing next to the staircase. My inspiration for this particular interior was the Tassel House in Brussels designed by Victor Horta.

The idea of lady petting an imaginary serval stayed (tbh I don't know why I chose servals to draw, they certainly are lovely creatures) but this time serval is coming out of a wall.

Because of lots spiral ornamentation I dropped the idea of drawing spirals on trousers.

Below you can finally see a net result.

imagination's swirling exuberance, pens on paper, 21 x 14,8 cm.

That's all. 

Please, tell me what do You think about imagination's swirling exuberance in the comments.

Have a Nice Day! 💛