"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Aquarelle & ink pen on paper, 29.7x42cm
14/06/2014
This is the first of a series I've been planning for a long time, actually I had the sketch sitting around for a few weeks before I did the outlines in ink, and after that I didn't work on it further for another few months. My vision of how this was going to turn out changed a little during that time, but overall I'm quite pleased with the outcome.
The idea was to capture those girls that are sung about in psychedelic music - Lucy, in this case, or Alice, Hazey Jane, Julia Dream - and make a connection with a specific substance. In this case it's LSD. The song by the Beatles already gives a lot of imagery as to what one might experience on it - I wouldn't know personally, but this is how I imagine it - the river flowing in her hair, tangerine trees, marmelade skies, cellophane flowers of yellow and green and the girl with kaleidoscope eyes. The back of the drawing actually has those lyrics written out, underneath the chemical formula for LSD. I hope I can continue this series with other drugs and songs as well.
Also, here's a comparison between this one and the old version I drew a few years ago! I remember I was visiting my brother and went to college with him one day. In his Toxicology class the professor was introducing LSD, where it comes from and what it does and I thought that was so insanely cool (but that's probably just the professor, I'm sure should I elect any chemistry or pharmacy classes myself I'll just get the boring stuff). Anyway, I doodled this and then finished it when I got back home. I think I've come pretty far since then, no?
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