FASHION ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY WATERCOLOUR: LONG DRESSES AND DE PROFUNDIS QUOTES!
Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! It's almost ten. I've had a long week and I'm quite tired and sleepy. However, I'll try to wrap this post up for you tonight. What kind of post? Well, a post about art. Fashion art to be more precise. I've been on a roll lately with my art posts. After a period of not posting my art at all, due to a variety of reasons, I started posting my art in every post. I got back to my destination art series, and now it's time for another post in my fashion art series. Friday Fashion Illustration is somewhat of a regular feature on my blog.
Today I'll share two watercolour pencil fashion illustrations of mine. I sketched both of them this Summer in my A3 mixed media sketchbook. I sketched the long yellow dress first, and then the blue and read one. The medium for both of them is watercolour pencils on paper, the same brand I always use. I find watercolour pencils to be quite practical, especially for sketching. I often use them to make fashion illustration. They are quite easy to use, you just sketch and then apply water later. You can also use them with other media, such as acrylics. Some artists use watercolour pencils to sketch when they work in other media, because unlike regular pencils, watercolour pencils can be covered up more easily with paint or even erased entirely with enough water. Anyhow, I used a touch of acrylics at the end, just because I ran out of my watercolour pencils. Scroll down to read and find out more about these two fashion illustrations.
De Profundis
I must admit that this quote often comes to my mind. Certainly one can be unhappy, even in the best of circumstances, even in the finest library or art gallery. However, books and art do help to make life more bearable. Well, at least they do for me. Flowers and the moon are pretty wonderful as well. Now, about freedom...that's a tricky one. Who of us is really ever free?
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Today I'll also share some quotes from De Profundis, a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment.
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to "Bosie" (Lord Alfred Douglas).
In its first half, Wilde recounts their previous relationship and extravagant lifestyle which resulted eventually in Wilde's conviction and imprisonment..... He indicts both Lord Alfred's vanity and his own weakness. In the second half, Wilde charts his spiritual development in prison and identification with Jesus Christ, whom he characterizes as a romantic, individualist artist. ....Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897, close to the end of his imprisonment. Contact had lapsed between Douglas and Wilde and the latter had suffered from his close supervision, physical labour, and emotional isolation. Nelson, the new prison governor, thought that writing might be more cathartic than prison labour. He was not allowed to send the long letter which he was allowed to write "for medicinal purposes"; each page was taken away when completed, and only at the end could he read it over and make revisions. Nelson gave the long letter to him on his release on 18 May 1897.
THE FASHION ILLUSTRATION VS THE INSPIRATION |
1) “The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”
2) “To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
3) “The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”
4) “The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”
an old portrait sketch (watercolour pencils) |
5) “Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.”
rate, so that if I may not write beautiful books, I may at least read beautiful
books; and what joy can be greater?”
Lindos vestidos . Eres una gran artista. Te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteThank you ! Gracias!
DeleteMaravilhosas aquarelas e vestidos!Adorei ver! beijos, lindo fim de semana,chica
ReplyDelete:) Thank you so much!
DeleteI am always delighted with your pictures and drawings:) Also your pictures! Although I am not a fashion expert, I know what is beautiful. And your dresses look even better on you - they look royal :) Have a nice weekend Ivana
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DeleteBardzo podobają mi się kolory, jakich używasz do swoich rysunków.
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DeleteOh, lovely art in fashion. Great to see your Friday post! Such vibrant colors. I love the quotes as well. You have revamped your blog I see. Very cool! Wishing you all the best to a fantastic October!
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DeleteSuch an enlightening post. So happy to see you in yellow and in blue too. Such great colors. Love, the sketches too. Great to see your art grow and designs as well. Thanks so much. I really enjoyed this post. All the best to a new month ahead. Stay creative! And all the best with your reading list too. Thanks so much for being here.
ReplyDeleteI love these colours, too!
DeleteGreat fashion, you are so cute.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteYour fashion illustrations are stunning as always, as are you in that gorgeous blue pleated maxi dress! xxx
ReplyDeleteGreat artwork. You are very talented Ivana :-D
ReplyDeleteThank you Ananka.
DeleteWhat a beautiful pictures and photos! I love it :)
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ReplyDeleteI love this blog feature and I'm glad you've taken it up again. I also like to dress well to work on the blog or even to do housework ehehe! So I understand that you also like to do it to work on your art! I really like your illustrations, the blue dress is a beautiful inspiration! The yellow more for the colour! I wish you a great week! Hugs
I do love that dress! Thank you !
DeleteAmazing! I love all!
ReplyDeleteThank you
DeleteEra da tanto che non pubblicavi le tue illustrazioni di moda!
ReplyDeleteBellissimi tutti gli abiti, in paarticolare quello blu, sembri una dea greca! :D
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DeleteSo many beautiful sketches. My favorite are the denim outfits and the red haired woman. Your blue dress is also very pretty.
ReplyDeleteThank you Hena!
DeleteA fantastic post about your fashion illustrations! I can't wait to see the sketches.
ReplyDeleteRead my new blog post on www.melodyjacob.com. Thank you!
Thanks Melody.
DeleteThe fashion illustrations and your blue dress is lovely. I hope you're enjoying autumn so far.
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Thank you, I appreciate it. I'm enjoying Autumn. :)
DeleteThe blue dress is gorgeous and it fits you wonderfully. I like the illustrations too, you are very talented.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Anca.
DeleteThe illustrations are lovely! Oscar Wilde has some of the best quotes. My favorite is "Be yourself; everyone else is taken."
ReplyDeleteI love that quote too...so simple, yet so perfect.
DeleteYour fashion illustrations are stunning as always. Thanks For Sharing
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I enjoy your fashion illustrations, Ivana! I love how you get creative and branch out from the literal picture, to play with colour and style on paper. That is a stunning blue gown, and how could you not love that glorious shade of yellow?
ReplyDeleteGotta love these colours, right?
DeleteYour fashion artwork is wonderful and you look like a Grecian goddess in your blue pleated dress! xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Vix!
DeleteI love this vintage dress.
I suppose it does make me feel like a princess.
Have a nice weekend!