Day five of The 100 Day Project.
Illustrations:
Diving head first by an unknown artist from Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique universel illustré
The fairies flew away by Charles Henry Bennett from The chicken market and other fairy tales
up, up and away
Day four of The 100 Day Project.
Illustrations:
Seizing our captain by Gustave Doré from Wunderbare Reisen zu Wasser und Lande, feldzüge und lustige Abentheuer des Freyherrn von Münchhausen wie er dieselben bey der Flasche im Zirkel seiner Freunde zu Erzählen pflegt. Aus dem Englischen nach der neuesten Ausgabe übersetzt, hier und da erweitert und mit noch mehr Küpfern gezieret
Aerostat ‘Le Comte d’Artois’ by an unknown artist from Les aérostats
a knight at the opera
Day three of The 100 Day Project.
Did I mention I like puns...?
Not my best Photoshop work but today was busier than I expected. I hope you can forgive the poor execution as a trade-off for the (at least vaguely amusing) concept.
I like to think the knight is mincing for a bit of attention, but getting none. Maybe this is moments before a bloodbath brought on by the lack of attention?
Or maybe the thought of an ensuing bloodbath is just me projecting because loud music and bad singing are coming from my neighbour's backyard for the second time within a month.
Illustrations:
Soldier with shield and sword by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc from Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance vol. 5
The opera by J. Godwin from The poets of the nineteenth century
a plague o' both your houses
Day two of The 100 Day Project.
Obviously inspired by the current situation but using a remix of plagues from past and present that are not directly related to the current situation.
Illustrations:
A physician wearing a seventeenth-century plague preventive costume
Château de Mehun-sur-Yèvre and Château de Chaumont by Albert Robida from La vieille France: la Touraine
something fishy this way comes
So, I'm having another stab at The 100 Day Project this year since I have more time on my hands than usual now.
My 'postcards from another's life' series will continue as and when I'm inspired, but this year's project is to create a digital collage each day, using a mixture of my own images and public domain illustrations or artwork, inspired by current events, personal feelings, film/literature/famous quotes/other popular culture, etc. Whatever inspires me on that day.
I started off with a specific quote in my head today, but couldn't find a public domain illustration to build the image around, so looked to my own collection of photographs to build upon instead which took me off in this direction.
It took me longer to get to the concept than to create the actual collage.
Not the worst result for my first attempt at this, but hopefully the results improve over time.
Illustrations:
All illustrations taken from Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, vol. 4 (atlas), 1836-1849
Orbicular batfish, rocksucker and scaly dragonfish by Jacques Reyne Isidore Acarie-Baron