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Assignment

After last post, I received a couple of emails kindly asking me to describe the minor amount of work I did that involved Disney's Bambi.

The assignment was to envision an entrance way for a grand room, depicting the world of Bambi, and to base the architecture on a specific doorway in Prague, which is a city filled with beautiful doorways. I envisioned the lunette as a delicately painted scene of doe and fawn, the surrounding arch a low bas relief of Bambi's friends, and the surrounding area as a diffuse painting of a forest. The heavy door would be carved, and the handle a bronze bird.

Turning in the assignment, I was thanked kindly, paid handsomely, and never heard another word about it. I did a fair bit of more work for them, but asking about the work once it was turned in was frowned upon.

This is the sketch I kept, having delivered a fully rendered drawing.

Leonardo's Dream

So, one day I got to thinking that Leonardo, being 'only human', must have obsessed enough with the dream of flight, that he actually would have dreamed about it. I did a preliminary drawing with the intent of painting it, but as with most of my personal work, it had to be set aside for paying commissions. Below is just one small section of that really large panorama drawing that includes a number of surrealistic details outside of this zoomed frame.

I have a dream of one day painting this, but it'll probably have to be a triptych, because the actual layout is so wide.

© 2008 Thomas Buchanan — Leonardo's Dream