ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Deviation Actions
Description
By request, posting a rather old pic.
Long ago (when I was only about 16), I went on a road trip from WA to CA with my dad, stepmom and two half brothers. As with =all= such trips, the car got a bit crowded before the end, no matter =how= many stops were made.
At one point, my oldest baby brother (9.5 years younger) started annoying me, trying to pick a fight just before dark. Our other brother was already asleep, and I certainly didn't want him to wake up and start fussing. So... I distracted him with a story about how the hills we were passing through were merely mounds of earth concealing dragons within them. And the hills =did= look very much as if there were dragon-shapes buried beneath them, and that dirt had sifted over and settled firmly around their sleeping forms. Dad and my stepmom were perfectly able to hear everything I said, but made no comments, as it was keeping a fight from breaking out in the back seat. He pressed his face to his window, much as I was doing on my side, and fell silent as he looked at the sleeping dragons I'd told him about until he fell asleep.
Almost 10 years later, the urge to paint something like this came over me. How many dragon-shapes can you find hidden in the earth of this image?
===
Watercolors, black and white only; blended to shades of gray.
Long ago (when I was only about 16), I went on a road trip from WA to CA with my dad, stepmom and two half brothers. As with =all= such trips, the car got a bit crowded before the end, no matter =how= many stops were made.
At one point, my oldest baby brother (9.5 years younger) started annoying me, trying to pick a fight just before dark. Our other brother was already asleep, and I certainly didn't want him to wake up and start fussing. So... I distracted him with a story about how the hills we were passing through were merely mounds of earth concealing dragons within them. And the hills =did= look very much as if there were dragon-shapes buried beneath them, and that dirt had sifted over and settled firmly around their sleeping forms. Dad and my stepmom were perfectly able to hear everything I said, but made no comments, as it was keeping a fight from breaking out in the back seat. He pressed his face to his window, much as I was doing on my side, and fell silent as he looked at the sleeping dragons I'd told him about until he fell asleep.
Almost 10 years later, the urge to paint something like this came over me. How many dragon-shapes can you find hidden in the earth of this image?
===
Watercolors, black and white only; blended to shades of gray.
Image size
1018x768px 87.72 KB
© 2006 - 2024 Catgoyle
Comments16
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
Pretty Cool, I see about 4 dragons I think. Reminds me of my hols to Wales when I would pass the time looking for sleeping trolls and dragon shapes in the mountains.