Unicorn dream painting
*Paragon*
paintings--figuratively and literally--of a white spectral unicorn on a
medieval cobblestone street at night, but far off in the background.
The foreground had people bustling about; the only light coming from
lampposts, and the unicorn was illuminated, but no one seemed to
notice.
It was one of those paintings where the title subject is not the main
focus of the painting, like the "Fall of Icarus" by Pieter Bruegel.
Unfortunately, I'm not an artist, else I would have gotten out a canvas
and started drawing/painting what I dreamt after I woke up. Maybe it's
just me, but I think it would've been a great piece of art. :)
Are there some artists who draw their dreams, or was at least inspired
by some of them?
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Leonard Lion
>Are there some artists who draw their dreams, or was at least inspired
>by some of them?
I'd hazard a guess that it's darn-near close to impossible to find an artist
who *hasn't* been...
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Skytech
> It was one of those paintings where the title subject is not the main
> focus of the painting, like the "Fall of Icarus" by Pieter Bruegel.
>
Mundane unable to accept the reality of fantasy.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not an artist, else I would have gotten out a canvas
> and started drawing/painting what I dreamt after I woke up. Maybe it's
> just me, but I think it would've been a great piece of art. :)
>
I see it and you are right!
> Are there some artists who draw their dreams, or was at least inspired
> by some of them?
>
Oh yes! Not often but there have been inspirations for drawings.
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Skytech
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Rorschach
> A few nights ago I had a very vivid dream of several dark
> paintings--figuratively and literally--of a white spectral unicorn on a
> medieval cobblestone street at night, but far off in the background.
> The foreground had people bustling about; the only light coming from
> lampposts, and the unicorn was illuminated, but no one seemed to
> notice.
> It was one of those paintings where the title subject is not the main
> focus of the painting, like the "Fall of Icarus" by Pieter Bruegel.
>
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not an artist, else I would have gotten out a canvas
> and started drawing/painting what I dreamt after I woke up. Maybe it's
> just me, but I think it would've been a great piece of art. :)
>
> Are there some artists who draw their dreams, or was at least inspired
> by some of them?
This is something the will eternally frustrate me unless or until I get to
teh level where I can draw extremely well (which is probably doubtful). I
have several amazingly clear and powerful pictures in my head that
COMPLETELY resist being drawn in any way shape or form.
One of the ones that I think would make an incredible painting is a
seacost after a storm. You can see that the water is still very green and
choppy, but the sky is clear. This is a very rocky coast and the light
through the breaking waves would make for some neat detail work. The mail
subject (lower) is a ship that has been thrown into the rocks by the
storm. It obviously broken up, with cargo floating around her, several
masts snappep off, and her rigging in tatters. (Close detail shows
several bodies floating around the ship and a man hanging upside down by
own leg in the tatters of the lines.)
In the air above this ship is floating another, done in mostly shades of
blue that seems to be glowing. You can quickly see that this is the same
ship, and you can see here crew manning the winches and cheering as she
readies to sail for some VERY distant new home port.........
Overall effect is both sad and happy, sad to see such an elegant machine
as a ship smashed to peices as well as the heavy price of her lost crew,
happy because of this new thing that has been born from her loss.....
. . Rors (Rorschach)
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Elynne
> > Are there some artists who draw their dreams, or was at least inspired
> > by some of them?
The first picture I created with oil pastels was the direct result of a
dream. The dream was so perfectly vivid, that I was able to recreate the
image almost exactly as it had appeared. It's one of the pictures I'm
most proud of. I've been hesitant to scan it in and add it to my picture
archive, however, for two reasons - first, dreams have power, and I'm not
completely certain that I want to share that image with just anybody who's
looking at the new uploads (and doesn't have me filtered out); and second,
because oil pastels take for-frigging-EVER to dry, and although I created
the picture over a year ago, there are still patches of it that are
smeary! I'm afraid that it'd smear, or leave stains on the scanner.
Plus, it's slightly too big for the scanner. :p
I have several other dream images that I would like to translate into the
physical world. One of the most powerful, though I don't know why, is of
a grassy bowl-depression in a field, at night under a huge full moon, with
the moonlight shining down on a cluster of floating monoliths which are
hovering above and around the bowl. o.O
It's still startling to find an image that I dreamed about years ago, and
in some cases I have written records where I described the image, and then
see that *exact* image on somebody's website or art archive, with a date
of just a week or a month ago. It makes me wonder... a lot.
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>second,
>because oil pastels take for-frigging-EVER to dry, and although I created
>the picture over a year ago, there are still patches of it that are
>smeary! I'm afraid that it'd smear, or leave stains on the scanner.
>Plus, it's slightly too big for the scanner. :p
You could try taking a photo and scanning that, maybe. Won't be as good,
obviously, but it's a start.
HPickands
topic as:
"Unicom dream painting." :/ The 'ol dyslexia comes up and swats me still.
Unicom was a now happily defunct brand of electronic calculator, made in Miami,
apparantly by swamp monsters. Overpriced rubbish from the early days, when the
mechanical calculators were better. First time I encountered the demon key
bounce - punch a key once, get several entries. Unicom's cure? Put a shim on
the keystem, and if that didn't work they'd sell you a brand new switch for ten
bucks, and you could spend a happy hour or two trying to solder the thing in.
:(
For me a "Unicom" dream painting would be a picture of every one of those
things in a pile, on fire. ;)
Sorry for the gross digression, I'll go away now. ;)
Harry Bear,
who knows just how good the current stuff really is.
Leonard Lion
>Sorry for the gross digression, I'll go away now. ;)
But you just got back!