Time for a bit of surreal flair, methinks. This week we’re looking at portraits, with a twist. Here are three characters to get your writing juices flowing.
Amy Friend, Latent Light, 2012. Altered photograph. www.amyfriend.ca
Rémy Poncet, Untitled, 2010-2014. Collage. www.brestbrestbrest.fr
Charlotte Caron, Fourmi (Ant), 2011. Acrylic on photograph. www.charlottecaron.fr
Monday greetings! As spring fishing season begins in Minnesota, let’s use the flash of scales to inspire a plan for our pen. Not interesting enough for you? Alrighty then, here’s a twist: fish plus person. What does that mean? That’s for you to decide.
Michael Sowa, School of Fish. Oil on canvas.
Charlotte Caron, Fish, 2011. Acrylic on photograph. www.charlottecaron.fr
Ralph Cahoon, Bass and Blues. Oil on masonite.
This week is Online Open Mic! Submit your work-in-progress prose or poetry today and tomorrow, and get feedback from your fellow writers on Wednesday!
The face is one of our most personal identifiers. But what if it was obscured? Let’s write a scene or entire piece that includes a character’s obscured face. Here are three examples (well, OK, actually four) to get you started; I’ll leave the how, why, and what follows to you.
Charlotte Caron, Corbeau (Raven), 2011. Acrylic on photograph. www.charlottecaron.fr
René Magritte, Les Amants (The Lovers), 1928. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
ILona Olkonen, Untitled (The homebody), 2008. Via flickr.
