My Illustration Friday attempt for "run".
This one was tricky. 'Running make-up' is where it ended up.
Also, to everyone who asked last week, my 'match' illo was inspired by the twins I photographed (although they are not really conjoined in real life). Twins make me so curious; that connection they share is second nature. Although, of all the identical twins I've ever known there's alway one who enjoys being a twin, and another who is really bothered by it. Even at the age of 3 I could see this in those boys already. Yet, the connection remains. These boys took ages to learn how to talk because they developed a language between themselves first. They would have entire babytalk conversations together that no one else could understand, but they continued as though they were really communicating. At points one would even crack the other one up with a joke of somekind and they'd both end up in hysterics, leaving the rest of us wondering what was so funny. So fascinating!
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She's a real stunner! Beautiful eyes...you really captured the feeling of everything running together.
Love this idea! Beautiful job. I loved your twins as well.
love this illo !!!
the eyes, the drops running in all paper .....
Ah, love the blue pallette. Her eyes are gorgeous - they really pop because of the contrast of the makeup. This is a great interpretation on the word and I do like that you allowed the watercolour to sort of "run" on it's own.
Regarding your twins from last week - I also share your curiousity about their strong connections. I wonder how that baby language would progress if they never learned the proper language? Anyways, I think you did a great job communicating the theme. Beautiful work!
this is so beautiful. i couldn't look away and once i did, i kept looking back. wonderful!
Very beautiful illo....I do love the eyes very much. Great job.
really beautiful!!!
Nicely done. Your illustration reminds me of several business women I saw out and about these past couple of rainy days.
I don't think that "baby-languages" are exclusive to twins or even to babies. When I was caring for my niece, we developed a sort of language with sighs, humming sounds, and clicks of our tongues. Since her motor-skills weren't quite developed yet, "adult" language was harder for her, but with our language she could tell me if she was hungry, tired, happy, wanting to play, or had a dirty diaper. The funny thing is that her English skills developed all the quicker! She is very articulate for a 2 year old.
amazing eyes.the whole pic seems to feel her tears of sadness. beautifully done
She looks like a tragic beauty, like if anything that happened that day, that week, was as bad as an acid rain drop.
I am fascinated by twins, too. My friend´s twin daughters also share this peculiar language that no one else understands, but its getting less with the months as they start speaking more coherently. I love how they observe and react to each other. How they are beginning to understand that they look alike and that they at the same time develop their own personality.
It is interesting that you say you noticed that often one of the identical twins is bothered by being a twin. There are famous ballet twins at the Hamburg Ballet who up to the last season had spent their whole life together. A documentary on them revealed how the older one (well...) felt this increasing urge to separate while the younger was left puzzled by this need, hurt, and definately not wanting it. This season each went on to pursue a career in different cities. And I have almost the feeling they will sooner or later break away from being ballet dancers, too, the older will move into choreography while the younger very likely will be a composer. And I believe that the older one understands how important this separation is to make the transition.
Ups, getting longer here than expected. I just really found your illos fascinating, and perhaps this lock/unlock scenario reminded me of the ballet twins.
This is so expressive...beautiful face
Ouissi x
This is beautiful! I love her drippy hair and the way the paint runs off the page :)
Never really understood makeup myself. As I keep telling my wife, why paint over perfection?
Stunning! and those eyes!!!
such a strong forlorn expression in those eyes. she doesn't seem to care too much about her running makeup. very striking, as always!
NICE!!.. love the dripping water colour effect..! :)
Lovely and moody – those eyes have it…
I loved the lock and keys in the twin image, so very true of the relationship – takes skill for anyone to “unlock” twins, takes much work for them to “unlock” themselves. Fantastic!
Great image - so sad, so beautiful! I like the colours - her blue eyes matches the blue, running paint, it makes the image more intense. Really a wonderful illo.
i love the watwercolor drip.
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Wow, this is great. I completly love her expression!
This is beautiful and sad and lovely.
This is so expressive, and so utterly organic and non-digital in every respect - just lovely, and an inspired spin on "run."
"Black tears are falling and she won't say what I've done" - Ben Folds
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