Forest Tales
Piece 10 of the “33” illustrated art storybook by Meg Konovska
This is piece No 10 of the “33” watercolour series by Meg Konovska (*khu-khum*, that would be… ME!).
The series consists of 33 paintings, 33 x 33 cm each. They are all created in the following manner:
• Randomly make 33 dots on the blank sheet, with eyes closed
• Connect the dots in a complete contour, without intersecting lines
• The resulting silhouette is developed in a sketch which is completed in colour.
To top it off, each painting is accompanied by an explanation for the unsuspecting observer to consider.
I now give you
Forest Tales (sold out)
Here are captured Granny Bear, Godfather Wolf and Godmother Vixen, peeking from behind an oak tree. They are particularly careful for around is roaming a Dwarf hunter with a double-barrelled gun which can kill a whole elephant (see The Hazelnut Hunter).
The forest residents have not seen what an elephant looks like but they had read in the Fish Book* by Peter Beron that the elephant is an animal that has a snivel hanging all the way to the ground at the font part of its head, and it uses this snivel as a hand to bring food to its mouth when it is hungry.
That is why Granny Bear, Godfather Wolf and Godmother Vixen are watching closely if an Elephant is coming around in order to inform him for the stalking danger represented by the Dwarf hunter and its sinister double-barrelled gun.
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*The Fish Book by Peter Beron is the first modern Bulgarian textbook published in 1824. It contains different sections starting with the alphabet and moving to stories, social norms, encyclopaedic facts and mathematics.
The name Fish Book refers to the illustrations of a whale and a dolphin in the first edition which greatly impressed readers at the time. Eventually they started naming it “the book with the big fish”, later to be condensed to “fish book”.
The description of an elephant mentioned in the story above is paraphrased but yet — true to the original in the Fish Book.
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