Kara Crookston
November 30, 2012
Art 187: Creative Assignment 3
Once Upon a Time. . .
The brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are world famous for their collection of tales called “Kinder- und Hausmarchen” in German and “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” in English. They transcribed tales from common villagers’ folk tales and fairy stories. My final project is based on the Brothers’ Grimm’s less known fairytales, such as The Princess in Disguise and Snow White and Rose Red. I’ve always loved fairytales, because I can imagine magic abounding in faraway lands filled with quests and adventures. I love reading about medieval princesses and princes, and how good always conquers evil. I especially like how every character, royal or common, obtains their happy ending and often love. I’m a hopeless romantic.
I created my composite photos in three steps. First, I chose the following fairytales: The Princess in Disguise, Snow White and Rose Red, The True Bride, The Goose-Girl at the Well, The Old Woman in the Wood, King Thrushbeard, The Wild Swans, and The Frog Prince. Second, I photographed the shadows of trees and plants on walls and sidewalks around my home and campus. Third, I assembled and photographed objects symbolizing each story with natural light on a black canvas.
After selecting the images I wanted to use from Lightroom, I edited the object images in Photoshop. After adjusting all the photos with the brightness/contrast, saturation/hue, and other adjustment layers, I layered the shadow images on top. I used the “darken” or “multiply” options to eliminate any color besides the black. Afterwards, I saved these composite photographs as jpegs and adjusted them in Lightroom. 
The Princess in Disguise
". . .Now, the King had a daughter who was quite as beautiful as her dead mother, and had also golden hair."
Summary: A beautiful queen, near death, makes the king promise to marry only someone as beautiful as she. The king resolves to marry his daughter who, on learning this, runs away, carrying a coat of many furs, a dress like the sun, a dress like the moon, and a dress like the stars, and becomes a servant. She appears dressed in her finery at three balls, and eventually marries the King who falls in love with her.
Snow White and Rose Red
". . . There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which bore white and the other red roses. . ."
Summary: Snow White and Rose Red is the story of two sisters who live with their mother in the forest. One cold winter day a bear comes to their house to shelter, and they give him food and drink. Later, in the spring, the girls are in the forest, and they see a dwarf whose beard is stuck under a tree. The girls cut his beard to free him, but he is not grateful. Some days after, they see the dwarf attacked by a large bird and again rescue him. Next, they see the dwarf with treasure. He tells the bear that they are thieves. The bear recognizes the sisters and scares the dwarf away. After hugging the sisters, he turns into a prince. The girls go to his castle, marry the prince and his brother and their mother joins them.
The True Bride
". . .There was once on a time a girl who was young and beautiful. . ."
Summary: beautiful young girl was made to work hard by her wicked stepmother. Aided by an old woman, she passed every test given to her by her stepmother. Living alone in a castle filled with riches, she eventually meets and falls in love with a prince who travels away. After waiting a long time, she searches for the prince, and discovers he’s forgotten their love. They eventually marry.
The Goose-Girl at the Well
". . .Behind the flock walked, stick in hand, an old wench, strong and big, but ugly as night. . ."
The old Woman in the Wood
A poor servant-girl was once travelling with the family with which she was in service, through a great forest, and when they were in the midst of it, robbers came out of the thicket, and murdered all they found.
King Thrushbeard
". . .A king had a daughter who was beautiful beyond all measure, but at the same time so proud and arrogant that no suitor was good enough for her. . ."
The Wild Swanswhite feather, thistle, crown
. . .The King had already been married once, and had by his first wife, seven children, six boys and a girl, whom he loved better than anything else in the world...
The Frog Prince
". . . LONG AGO, when wishes often came true, there lived a King whose daughters were all handsome, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun himself, who has seen everything, was bemused every time he shone over her because of her beauty. . ."
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