Carnifex Mardi Gras 3
- CARNIFEX MARDI GRAS 3 - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on a 11 x 14 size coquille board. It appears in the book, "CARNIFEX MARDI GRAS," by John F. Carr, published by Pequod Press in 1982
I was always challenging myself to add something extra to an illustration to make it visually more interesting. I often drew patterns or unique objects somewhere in the composition if I felt free to do so, it depended on the story.
Some authors are very descriptive with their characters and backgrounds making it easier for me to visualize a scene I intend to illustrate. But I once lay down in bed to read the manuscript of a paperback novel for which I was to do a cover painting, I had pencil at hand to underline character descriptions and background details, and to brackett scenes that I would consider painting for the cover.
As I continued to read, the pencil lay still, and for page after page the pencil remained beside me, the pages unmarked. I began to get annoyed, and somewhat worried! And for crying out loud, when I finished reading the novel I had not made a single mark on any page of that manuscript!!! In the entire novel there had been no descriptions of anyone in that story, and not even one exciting scene that caught my attention!
I had to re-read the novel to find "something" to paint, and I finally saw a reference to the Oswald assassination of President Kennedy.
It had little to do with the story, but that's what I painted because I thought the "incident" was an eye-catcher, would attract readers to buy the book. Which is what my job is all about.
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