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Submitted: May 10, 2012
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Creeping Past the Dragonby *erinclaireb

Traditional Art / Paintings / Illustration / Conceptual

Life's no fairytale for children exploited by the coffee industry...

watercolour and ink

A third piece in this series. See the first and second ones here

Again, trying to capture that golden-age feel, and I tried to limit my colour palette a bit more in this one, although I feel it's turned out a bit flat because of it...

This painting will be shown with the other two in May (just for a day!) as part of the 2012 Victorian Fair Trade Festival, to raise awareness of exploitation in the coffee industry.

They'll be in fed square on the 11th, anyone who's in Melbourne please feel free to drop in for a look and say hi

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~fearnandfire Sep 16, 2012 Traditional Artist

This is really interesting! I'm actually working on an essay about the KNCU, including its relationship with Fairtrade International, right now. Or I was, until I started procrastinating...

Anyways, you art is beautiful and very powerful.

*erinclaireb Sep 17, 2012

Oh thanks so much, I'm really glad you think so

it's great to hear that you're working on an essay on this theme as well, it's something that needs a lot of attention and research

~fearnandfire Nov 1, 2012 Traditional Artist

You're welcome! I agree.

=LadyofGaerdon Jun 23, 2012 Professional Writer

This is gorgeous and I love the concept behind it. Well okay, the concept behind it (child exploitation) is terrible of course but I'm glad that you're bringing attention to it. I really like the dragon and the books.

*erinclaireb Jun 24, 2012

Oh thankyou! I really appreciate you saying so! I was a bit worried that I maybe put people off a bit by having art with a message rather than just art to convey a pretty picture, but I didn't mean to make anyone feel bad about their morning coffee

just to make people think next time they're in the supermarket! And I'm really glad you like it

The books are my favourite bit, although the dragon was fun to draw. I kept sketching her as this cute little thing instead of a scary dragon, so in the final version here she doesn't look quite as intimidating as she could!

=LadyofGaerdon Jun 24, 2012 Professional Writer

I kind of like her as a cute little thing. And art with a message is GREAT but I understand your concern. It's hard to know how people will react.

~Hawkbittern May 15, 2012 Student General Artist

Interesting symbolism.

*erinclaireb May 15, 2012

thankyou

do you think it gets the message across effectively?

~Hawkbittern May 16, 2012 Student General Artist

To an extent. It only really clicks when you read the tiles of the books. Oh and great work on lettering all those books and making them readable. must have taken you a long time.

*erinclaireb May 16, 2012

thankyou for the feedback, I really appreciate it when someone takes the time to comment like this

and thankyou, yes it did take a while!

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