The THREE Project©: THREE© Umbrella

THREE© Umbrella

The idea of choosing UMBRELLA as the next "it" project came to me when I was walking to the dining hall the other day and saw an umbrella lying on the floor soundlessly.
Umbrellas. I like them. Somehow they give me such a timeless fashion, a calm gentleness.

When I first started the production, I looked for black ink for the different curves of different umbrellas. However, I had no luck finding it.
Instead, I discovered a box of charcoal. Would this black work?

The box of charcoal I found on the "magic" shelf.

It turned out that I LOVED the texture of charcoal!
It is so very smooth and thick, one just needs to be careful with its small powders though.

My dirty fingers after using the charcoal.
Even though I tried to hold the charcoal as lightly as possible, it still left significant black marks on my hand.

Next, I thought of my crazy dream about umbrella when I was little.
I loved rainy days. I hope there could be enough rain that the world became a river and I could use my umbrella as my boat when I went out. Ah the boat floats and floats.
(I now know that it makes no physics sense and flood is indeed very destructive.)

Dream is dream. It is where umbrellas go in my heart.

Trying out different sketches. (The one on the left was the picked one)
Found that using a smaller brush would help portray the umbrella boat's thin handle.

Purple is always so hard to mix!

Trying to jump out of the formerly set perspective, I found myself looking at the top of an umbrella.
The contour of it is so perfectly circular (that I had to draw the line around a cylinder container), and the lines on it so perfectly straight (that I had to use rulers for them).
Then I asked myself what I felt about umbrellas.
Little Suns.
Each umbrella has a little orange sun in its middle, melting away sadness and drying up wet tears from the sky. The sun is tiny, but it means whole lot to the tiny world beneath it. Warmth, dryness, comfort.