Denver Street Painting Festival

This weekend I did an original illustration I painted back in College. It is a children's illustration based on a Robert Louis Stevenson poem called 'My Bed is a Boat".

My bed is like a little boat;
Nurse helps me in when I embark;
She girds me in my sailor's coat
And starts me in the dark.

At night I go on board and say
Good-night to all my friends on shore;
I shut my eyes and sail away
And see and hear no more.

And sometimes things to bed I take,
As prudent sailors have to do;
Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake,
Perhaps a toy or two.

All night across the dark we steer;
But when the day returns at last,
Safe in my room beside the pier,
I find my vessel fast.

I took my original painting and skewed the entire boat, including the boy, in perspective based on my vanishing point. The vanishing point was placed in the photoshop file 5 inches below the bottom of the green frame. This allowed me to stretch the boat and boy to fit the lines I drew from the vanishing point below.

The street painting was 10 x 14 feet with the vanishing point 5 feet below and directly center.

Comments

[Manuela]

Thanks for writing this.

[Ed Hardy Outlet]

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought bo be.