Those were my entries for the April 2025 Art Challenge: “Fairy Tales and Bedtime Stories”
I llustrated a French tale by George Sand called “Le Marteau Rouge” (The Red Hammer ), that is about… a rock! LOL The existence of a piece of carnelian rock from the moment it fell from the mountain in the mythological times, and how it was found, broken in smaller pieces, used and forgotten by people several times throughout the ages, until only a small part of it now remains encased in a ring. The title came from the fact that the most glorious part of the “life” of that rock was being used as the head of a war hammer by the chief of a prehistoric tribe (who painted his entire body with a blue war paint), so I naturally chose to paint that moment.
I made 2 entries because I wanted 1 with the original French title and 1 with the translation to adapt to the language of this contest.
About the font used: Jungle Fever (100% free on dafont.com) for the title and Franklin Gothic Medium (native in Windows) for the author’s name. I also applied the layer style “Satin”.
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