Scene on the Path: Kristine's entry for Work of Art Challenge #4

This week I created more of an arts and crafts project than a work of art! The challenge inspired by this week's episode of Work of Art was to create a work of art that relates to a piece of art made by a child (click here for this week's rules). Here is my finished work of art for the week:



As a reminder, here are the two drawings that inspired my artwork:


(My niece Lauren's drawing on the left, and my nephew Benjamin's drawing on the right)

The first thing you probably noticed when you looked at my piece was that it's very busy. Lauren's drawing was so full of joy that I decided to use it all as inspiration. I packed in all of the fun things I might see on a walk in a garden with my niece... if she didn't live across the country from me!

The sky, trees, birds (I went with poultry), flowers, snails... It occurred to me that I have taken pictures of many such things. So I spent a bunch of time reviewing all those nearly forgotten old folders of photos on my computer. Ahhh, the memories!! I'd forgotten some of those colors exist... especially those amazing sunsets.

Here are the individual photo collages:

This one was based on trees (summer, autumn, winter, and spring), birds (swans, chickens, and ducks), and for the rocks in Lauren's drawing, various pictures of the ground. I tried to make it vibrant and colorful (like her drawing).



This collage contains clips from some of my favorite sky and cloud photos. Sunsets, rainbows, and an Elmo balloon floating through the air. It's whimsical. :)

And the last collage has a tiny snail in the middle, surrounded by happy looking flowers.

It was harder than I anticipated to work Benjamin's drawing into the overall piece. After some thought, I decided the yellow line represented a path... 'cuz, hey, Lauren's drawing had a path as well! What can I say, I wanted some sort of connection. Now that I had one, I drew a black and white ink piece representing paths around patches of grass. Not colorful enough... I made an abstract green and yellow watercolor painting--also representing a path through a nice grassy park or something--then used Paint Shop Pro to merge the two.

Original drawing and painting.


After being merged in PSP.

And finally, the full, busy piece of art... 3/4 collage, 1/4 abstract, with all representing observations along a path:


Maybe this week my piece will be voted #1? LOL, my expectations aren't high after last week, when Emily got votes before she had even posted her art project! Very suspicious...