I Love You Inside Out, Who Ever You May Be. Itchycoo No 3

The Itchycoo Story ... So far....

Somewhere Beyond the Sweet Milk Mountain,

Where the Silken Threads Surround You.

I Love You Inside Out, Who Ever You May Be.

 

Itchycoo 1                                         Itchycoo 2

Itchycoo 2                                       Itchycoo 3

The scary moment -

 do the pictures work together as I don't have picture no 2 to line up with.

Hard to see in the above so I tried it on the computer.

Thank's to Mr Apple Huge Screen, I am able to have two windows at the same time.

Not bad first try, much better second time around.

The joining of the orange in the sky, needed to be faded a little as the colour match was too harsh. 

That will teach me for being lazy in dotting for the roll over. I've made sure I've done it already for no 4.   

Getting ready, rolling onto Itchycoo No 4.

Details

A Pink Whale cries an ocean of happiness, with his friend Snail and Polka Dot Puddy.

The Russian Dolls untie a riddle, reading Mimi's thoughts/ future -
I love you Inside out..

An Emotional Life Tree of all Seasons.

A floating house guards the boy, enclosing his thoughts, emotions,
memories and experiences.

Above him it is his link back to his real home and family.

My Grandparent's home, Nobelsgate 13 becomes the starting point of Itchycoo.

  Although Itchycoo is from my imagination, it's based within my reality, while revisiting my childhood memories from Norway. It starts with a game in my grandparents house, Nobelsgate 13. The layout of the house in the story, will be the true to the actual house. Many of the familiar object's within the house will also be recognised within my paintings. 

 Mimi will get to Itchycoo by playing a game with her sister. Instead of Snakes and Ladders she plays Slides and Zebras, where they slide down the staircases and (zebra) cross the corridors into different rooms. There is no board with counters. Instead, the house stands for the board while the girls themselves are the counters. They start in the high vaulted attic, looking in boxes. Mimi finds and puts on her grandmothers red dress, there is a gold carousel charm in her pocket. Mimi is the first to make it to the secret room (the room where I used to think the troll lived) She walks further and as her eyes adjust to the light she is walking down a corridor. She wanders where she is going and then realises that she must be walking in a tunnel that lies directly below Nobelsgate. She goes towards the light and realises that she has come into a wonderland that lies beneath the sculpture park- 

This is the Land of Itchycoo - 

This is where my first painting of the series starts:

 Somewhere Beyond The Sweet Milk Mountain.

I Love you Inside Out, who ever you may be.

Back home, straight into painting! I'm pleased to say, I've got most of the base layer in.

Here's the Russian doll set, they pop in and out of each other, they will appear within the Itchycoo story giving Mimi clues when she needs them along the way. When no one is looking, they will move, popping in and out, revealing a riddle of objects inside of them. They are fast and like to tease us, often you may catch a wink, or think you have heard a whisper, chances are you are not imagining these things. They keep together within a red ribbon  communicating with it by reading peoples thoughts and answer what they are thinking. Here they are with Mimi, echoing her love for a boy that is there, and yet to meet waiting for their paths to cross, experiencing love in her future: Hence the title: I Love You Inside Out, Who ever you may be. (The inside - Out, exaggerated by the dolls that go inside each other.)

If I had or could do photoshop- I know very poor -

I would put my family and friends in the blank faces! Please feel free to do so yourself,

 as long as you send me your images so I can post up here. 

Starting to fill in.