Angela Vandenbogaard: Watercolour Wednesday: Fiction Project Inspiration

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Watercolour Wednesday: Fiction Project Inspiration

Stargazing - 4x6" watercolour

I have been working with ideas for my contribution to The Fiction Project. I guess that I am just too anxious to wait for my book to arrive for me to start. After thinking about ideas, I realized that I had to use a cow for my main character - having grown up on a dairy farm and working with them for most of my childhood. My character will be a calf (baby cow), so it will have to loose the udder from this rendition, but that's okay.

I have already sketched out main ideas, and very simplified page layouts. According to my 'research' on the sketchbook type that I will be receiving, it will be 80 pages long. I'm taking the 'children's book' approach - so that is way to long for that. But that's okay! I will have the main story, and then after will be mini snippets, poems and such.

I'm still not telling what topic I choose...but I'm sure most are able to narrow it down. ;)

2 comments:

Amanda said...: nice! i cant wait to see your book come together! i really want to participate too, but i don't think i will this time. writing & illustrating a story seems like it'll take a bit more time than i have!

if it's the same sketchbook as i had for the project, the pages will be very thin. so if you're planning on using watercolour, you may not want to use both sides of each page.; January 19, 2011 at 8:03 AM
Tami Cohen said...: wow you are incredibly well organized.... i got my fiction project book last week and i've prepared, mentally, maybe the name of the protagonist.

that's it :)

i plan to begin in earnest in february. i want to clear my decks first this week...; January 24, 2011 at 3:14 PM