Dream #1

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Looking for dream images

Although I still have a lot of photoshopping to do on my first dream series, I decided that the young son and I needed a break from the city. So we went out to an odd spot in New Jersey where my best childhood friend used to live. It was supposed to become a reservoir, but that plan fell through and the area was declared protected farm space or something. The dream I want to illustrate was about a part of Bed-Stuy where the descendants of freed slaves lived, farming on land that was given to them. The farmhouse in the dream was from this area in New Jersey. We hung out near the canal, everything was so green and calm.
 

The surrounding nature did not deter the young son from his video gaming.
 

This is the house from my dream (with son crossing into the frame). But the reality of the house did not fit with my dream view.
 

I decided that this barn was better for what I am planning.
 

I found this farmer from a group of fsa photos online. The farmer in my dream was older and more grizzled with pride in his eyes. This farmer is at least smiling so I think he will do. It is a small image so I will have to work on it the way I did with my visitation pictures

And I know that New York slaves were freed way before abolition, They probably did not receive any real estate, certainly not any 40 acres, but it is a dreamscape.

Dream House

This is one of the images I have been working on for my dream illustration. I want to add one of the trees I photographed last week into this picture. The house used to be black and now it was white. In my dream, I was explaining to my friend how the house had changed and it reverted back to the way it was while I was talking.

Dream Image

I am really happy with this image. I had been trying different things to get these images to look more like my dream. Besides what I last posted, I also tried using brush pens, but I was not happy. Finally, I started working with Japanese paper and a polymer varnish. I think this looks the closest to my dream image. I have two other images to work on that go with this one. I am still learning things with Photoshop that I need for the other two images.

Dreams

I have been working on an idea to illustrate some of my dreams. In this one, I was visiting the neighborhood where I grew up with a friend. I was showing him how my old house had changed.

But it began to shift back to the way it looked before.

The window of my old bedroom was different, it looked like the window of a luxury apartment.

I am still working out the details on the images. There should be a little girl in the window of my old bedroom window. I need to ponder how I feel the images look with drawing on them, which is why I posted them. I am not sure yet how I want to put them together. Maybe I need a view of the surrounding neighborhood or a picture of my friend.

More to come once I figure it all out.