This piece is about Ophelia losing her grip on reality. My illustration professor gave me the idea of showing her backstage in a theater. We can't forget that Ophelia IS a character in a play, so it's rather clever to show her divorce from reality as her sort of breaking the fourth wall during the play. She's also arranging the flowers she's about to dole out.
The blending is a bit better in this one than the last piece. I'm mostly disappointed in how Ophelia turned out. I had a really great reference for her crazy face, but it just didn't make it through (probably because I work so small). I also wish her hair had been more disheveled. The flowers also read as too dull.
Watercolor on cold press paper.
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