A Lady’s Dream

   Not sure to approach this like a story or just throw up the technical details so ima wing the former with the latter.
   So it begins with the original artwork, the Japanese print of “The Fisherman’s Wife Dream” and later on Carolina’s vision. I approached this one by procrastinating as per usual, letting the thought of researching the topic in my mind linger for a week or three.
   When block printing, one carves each color on a block and I was assuming I was working with about 11-12 colors, although as per usual, it turned out my habit of brushing to blend took over a bit. Details with block printing comes in each layer, and are a lot simplistic. You see a bush, it could have three greens, one for the base green color, one darker green for the shadow parts, and one more lighter green color where the light hits the most on the bush, no pun intended. 
   I was at the store, and saw a jar of cement texture and glass beads, and like all my decisions thus far, I decided meh, it’s time to play with something new. The glass beads medium was used on the octopus, to add that lil shine of wet… water not juices. The cement textured was used on the grass and rocks that surround the two figures. To add to this, I decided to do in acrylics even though my past paintings were primarily oil, mostly due to time.
   I happen to end up throwing everything out the window twice; once with trying to have a watercolor-esque painting, similar to how the inks in block prints are, and when I started to blend the skin tone on her when I was trying to keep it more like the block prints. Clearly, something went from here, or I just simply forgot along the way where I was going with it. This happens often. So I wing it at times,