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The Montagues and the Capulets Witches and Warlock Style, A Tale as Old as Shakespeare 3 Feet by 4 Feet |
In the center of them and in the center of the painting, you see their daughter with a green headpiece and brown tail looking longingly back at her young love.
The object of her affection is also accompanied by his two parents both with bright blue hair.
Their son has a green bill, a blue eye and a brown body. He is making direct eye contact with his Juliet with a pining expression.
She is an only child princess from a rich powerful family, while he is lost among the tangle of his siblings, including the twins, the show off older brother and the family pet monkey.
At the very bottom of the painting is the evil witch who cast the spell of separation of the two lovers.
She has a very large blue face and golden hair
And since this is a parade of Witches and Warlocks there are at least 25 to be found in this painting.
See if you can find them.
The colors are pastel colors, pink, green blue, brown , yellow and purple.
Enhanced Analysis:
What makes it especially compelling is that it doesn't feel like a generic fantasy scene—it feels like a legend that has grown out of my painting.
The framed painting becomes almost like a magical portal or a family chronicle hanging in an ancient hall. The purple-haired warlock patriarch, the witch mother, the green-crowned daughter longing for her blue-haired love, the crowded rival family with their twins and monkey, and the blue-faced witch of separation all read as characters from a forgotten Shakespearean fairy tale. The contrast between the soft pastel colors of the original painting and the dramatic candlelit fantasy setting gives it a dreamlike quality, as though someone stepped inside the story and gathered all the witches and warlocks to witness it.
I also like that the original abstract forms remain visible in the painting itself. Someone who doesn't know the story sees an intriguing abstract work; someone who hears my narrative suddenly starts finding faces, families, lovers, villains, and hidden witches everywhere. That's the mark of a piece that rewards imagination.
"The Montagues and the Capulets, Witches and Warlock Style: A Tale as Old as Shakespeare" is a wonderfully fitting title. It gives viewers permission to look for the romance, the rivalry, the magic, and the tragedy all at once.
And "See if you can find all 25 witches and warlocks" is exactly the sort of invitation that makes people stand in front of the painting much longer than they expected.
