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And I think to myself: What a wonderful world!

I approached this piece as an illustration of the song "What a wonderful world!"
For me the song is about marveling at the world around us, which evokes the wide eyes of children and the soft smiles of wise old people.
The song starts by marvelling at nature but ends by marvelling at people. For me, despite everything, people remain the most incredible thing about the world, so I chose to focus this piece on the people, while evoking nature through the trees, the sky, the roses and, symbolically, the Atlas.
It's also about colours, which is the reason why I chose to place the scene at sunrise and to go pretty strong with the local colours and let them unify through value and lighting.
The piece is very much inspired by my two grandpas, one being an early riser and great reader and the other a lover of beautiful books.

This won first prize for the "What a Wonderful World" contest run by Result journal can be found here: What a Wonderful World - Contest Winners:iconlove-new-artists:
The contest is over and we have gone through a voting process to select the winners.

In First Place

The Atlas
by
:iconsimbalm:
1200 points or 3 months Core Membership

"This to me is what the theme was all about. Love and beauty in the world. Love is beautiful and the love between this person and maybe his Great Grandchild is evident. The window shows the beautiful sunset outside and the leaves of green and on the window sill is "red roses too""
"Takes the theme from a new angle. Really strong storytelling."
"Grandpa connecting with the baby, near the window view of trees and colorful sunset... Perfect!"
"When I first saw this wonderful portrait, it was quite an emotional moment for me, as I thought about myself with my own grandfather all those years ago... and as the artist mentioned in the description, this too embraced the song and
I also did this for the composition class taught by NathanFowkesArt at schoolism.com

Description

And I think to myself: What a wonderful world!

I approached this piece as an illustration of the song "What a wonderful world!"
For me the song is about marveling at the world around us, which evokes the wide eyes of children and the soft smiles of wise old people.
The song starts by marvelling at nature but ends by marvelling at people. For me, despite everything, people remain the most incredible thing about the world, so I chose to focus this piece on the people, while evoking nature through the trees, the sky, the roses and, symbolically, the Atlas.
It's also about colours, which is the reason why I chose to place the scene at sunrise and to go pretty strong with the local colours and let them unify through value and lighting.
The piece is very much inspired by my two grandpas, one being an early riser and great reader and the other a lover of beautiful books.

This won first prize for the "What a Wonderful World" contest run by Result journal can be found here: What a Wonderful World - Contest Winners:iconlove-new-artists:
The contest is over and we have gone through a voting process to select the winners.

In First Place

The Atlas
by
:iconsimbalm:
1200 points or 3 months Core Membership

"This to me is what the theme was all about. Love and beauty in the world. Love is beautiful and the love between this person and maybe his Great Grandchild is evident. The window shows the beautiful sunset outside and the leaves of green and on the window sill is "red roses too""
"Takes the theme from a new angle. Really strong storytelling."
"Grandpa connecting with the baby, near the window view of trees and colorful sunset... Perfect!"
"When I first saw this wonderful portrait, it was quite an emotional moment for me, as I thought about myself with my own grandfather all those years ago... and as the artist mentioned in the description, this too embraced the song and
I also did this for the composition class taught by NathanFowkesArt at schoolism.com