Fairytales

    My original idea for this was about dream writing. Some people choose to keep a dream diary and they take note of their nightmares and dreams. However, gaps are always missing after waking up from dreams. This is shown on the posted notes. The black fineliner represents the nightmare, i drew the lines quite violently to show distress. For the other posted notes i used a mix of pastel blue and purple as they are soft, calming colours to represent nice dreams. I also drew them in , loose, calm lines. Using tipex i covered some lines to show the gaps from the dreams. Then i came up with an alternative idea. A lot of fairy tales are based of gruesome tales that are then sugar coated for children stories. This is what each posted note represents, the original gruesome story and the sweet fairytale. However, in recent years people have noticed flaws in the sugarcoated tales with gender roles, ages, etc. The messy cross hatch beneath the posted notes shows these thoughts creeping through as people pull the tales apart.
Unfortunately the background for this piece was something i randomly did. I think to improve the fairytale part would be to do it separately to the background and with real pages from both stories for the comparison. I could blank out the gruesome details and replace it with the sugarcoated version and do vice versa with the updated version. Then instead of the cross hatch underneath i could write down comments of peoples arguments with the updated version pointing out the need for strong, individual female leads and so on.
   The background was done with rubbing a crayon across the page, some places harder for a darker marking. I've always liked the marks crayons leave on the page as its is always distinctive. Using PVA glue i drew random marks on the page. I didn't really know what i was doing and i shouldve of taken it further by building up these marks to have stronger impact on the page. I could of gone round the PVA with pen to make them stand out and develop this background into something else.