Gaalav: 2012

Thursday, March 29, 2012

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

The company of wolves

....At night, the eyes of wolves shine like candle flames, yellowish, reddish, but that is because

the pupils of their eyes fatten on darkness and catch the light from your lantern to flash it back

to you--red for danger; if a wolf's eyes reflect only moonlight, then they gleam a cold and

unnatural green, a mineral, a piercing colour. If the benighted traveller spies those luminous,

terrible sequins stitched suddenly on the black thickets, then he knows he must run,

if fear has not struck him stock-still.

The Bloody Chamber

....So, for the opera, I wore a sinuous shift of white muslin tied with a silk string under the breasts.

And everyone stared at me. And at his wedding gift.

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide,

like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

Puss In Boots
.....there is a lady sits in a window for one hour and one hour only, at the tenderest time of dusk.
You can scarcely see her features, the curtains almost hide her; shrouded like a holy image,
she looks out at the piazza as the shops shut up, the stalls go down, the night comes on.

Entries for the folio society illustration comptetion.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Illustrations

GContest entry for deviant art

Cirque du soleil

This year Cirque du soleil performed at Oscars 2012,

i have probably watched everything they have on Youtube and was more than happy to see it live on a 27" LCD at home

if you are unaware of there existence google them up you wont be disappointed.
These scribbles do no justice to the sheer artistry and skill they portray , but i had to draw it.

here are some postures of the acrobatia segment.