Writing With Fire: Snow White

Inspiration can come to you in all sorts of funny ways. My recent piece came to me after reading "Snow, Glass, Apples," a short piece Neil Gaiman had contributed to in the collection of vampire short stories - "By Blood We Live." On a brief note, it is a fantastic book to read if you're a fan of any of the number of authors who contributed to the collection and/or a vampire fan in general (excluding "Twilight" of course.)

Gaiman's piece was extremely dark, exploring a few macabre and taboo themes I won't dare mention here. My piece has more relevance to the Walt Disney animated feature film that we were all familiar with, yet it was the story which spurred my idea to think about Snow White. I find it so funny how things happen like that sometimes.



This is after I drew and burnt the image into wood. I drew this completely from my imagination, using only clip art from the internet as to what certain objects looked like such as the heart box and Art Nouveau type of illustrations. The little pencils marks you see are what I used as a guide on what I would and wouldn't paint on the piece.



This is the way it looked after I finished painting it. I didn't have any gold paint for the crown, so when I do, I'll be painting it gold. The things that are lodged in the apple are jewels to represent the dwarfs and I'm pondering on whether or not to paint them or leave them blank.

The next thing I'm going to do is paint this piece onto a canvas.