For she hungered for light by Hrymfaxe

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Prompt and Path: Abstract & Act of Kindness, Blue path
Format: Painting
Genre: Fanart
Rating: G
Warnings: Spider!
Characters: Ungoliant
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional): My attempt at abstract, but figures keep sneaking in.... Watercolour and zeichentusche.
Inspired by reading binkaslibrary story: First anarchist (Drabble, Melkor, rating G) and dawn_felagund's meta On Writing Aman, or the Balance between the Mythic and the Real for this year's B2MEM. :)
Summary: "Thence she had crept towards the light of the Blessed Realm; for she hungered for light and hated it."



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Comments

[foxrafer.livejournal.com]

I love this. The way the colors mix, the creepiness of the spider, it's all so beautifully done.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I loved playing with the juxtaposition of the soft watercolors and the sharp dark shape of the spider. I'm glad the mood comes through!

[hhimring]

That works really well--the spider's body like a half-eclipsed black sun--and the ominous red...

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

half-eclipsed black sun

Ooh I love that description! :D Thank you so much.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Beautifully chilling.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[fernstrike]

So beautiful and so creepy!

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[pandemonium-213.livejournal.com]

I love this, Hrym!

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it tickled your fancy! :D I must admit to thinking of you and your stories as well as I painted.

[lynndyre.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is cool. Ungoliant upside down is all the creepier.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Yes, creeping along on the underside of things, hidden until she pounces! Urgh, I'm giving myself the heebie-jeebies!

[binkaslibrary.livejournal.com]

I think that they should buy this from you and put it in the next edition of the Silm, honestly. This is amazing.

Thank you!

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

That would be very awesome if it happened!!!

Thank you! Your drabble really got my imagination going - there is nothing better than creativity feeding creativity.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

I like this VERY much. The hint of spider and the way you have your colors assigned - just wonderful. I could see this on my wall.

- Erulisse (one L)

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! What a wonderful comment.

[liadt]

Coo! Scary!

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's scary for me too!!

[(Anonymous)]

Nice!

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!! :D

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Oooh, the blend between the abstract/ random colours where one just thinks one can discern trees and towers, and the very clear-cut and dark shape of Ungoliant is really effective. The legs in particular are fantastic, I don't know why but they work spectacularly well. Fantastic work!

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you are seeing hints of trees and towers - that was exactly what I was trying to do without detailing. I even made myself paint with only a spray bottle and a credit card, to avoid things looking too planned.

Spider legs are what makes me jump when I see them, so I definitely played them up here!!

[the-wretching.livejournal.com]

Hi hi. This popped up in popular lj posts on the homepage. I am so in love with this painting.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! And what an appropriate icon! :D

[starbrow.livejournal.com]

Wow! The cloud of darkness around her, spilling into and taking over the light, the faint vestige of a city in the background far away, and the light, still lingering....

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I really enjoyed reading your impressions from this image. :D

[independence1776]

OOH! I love the colors, Ungoliant creeping below: it's an amazing painting.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. :D No one creeps like a spider!

[ysilme]

Terrific! I usually find it difficult to "get" abstract art, and mostly, I don't really manage. This resonates very deeply with me, and I really like how the shapes, colours and shadows evoke so many different things from and about your subject.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Abstract art is so many things, and a lot of it is beyond my skills at decoding as well, but I am happy that this managed to reach you. :D I could not wish for anything more.

[dawn_felagund]

This is just beautiful. I love the way the shapes give a sense of order--of cities, of forests--and also of light, but in their midst, the shadow, the spider. And, of course, they are all a cohesive part of the same world.

I'm assuming you did Ungoliant last? (One of the things I love about your work is staring at it long and trying to figure out how you did it. :D)

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was an interesting exercise to only hint at shapes and action with the watercolors - to limit myself from going in with too much control my tools were a spraybottle of water and an old credit card lol!

Yes Ungoliant came after all the colors, so I could hide her behind them for maximum creepiness! :D

[elleth]

Chilling! I love the abstract art - it lends itself so very well to a scene like this that might be hard to depict with conventional means. There's a lot of power in the shapes this suggests, I really like it.