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| WIP Art Journal Entry, as based on the story, 'Babette's Feast' |
My Faces #28 and #29 of the '29 Faces' May Challenge. Yay, I did it -- another whole month of Faces.....!
The above is my WIP guest art journal entry, as per my Student Art Journal Project. I began this earlier in the month as a two-page horizontal spread as inspired by the story, 'Babette's Feast', but had only gotten as far as the portrait of Babette, on the left. I have now included her two employers, an elderly pair of sisters, Martine and Philippa, on the right. Martine and Philippa are Danish spinsters who are surprised to find the Frenchwoman, Babette, arrive on their doorstep one night. A refugee from the French revolution, Babette seeks safe harbor. The sisters, who live in simplicity in a remote village, are at first reluctant to take on a domestic servant, especially a stranger. And yet over the years they grow to depend on Babette, while never asking questions about her mysterious past. After many years they discover Babette's secret, that she is a chef of rare talent, when she uses her winnings in a lottery to put on a full-on French repast the likes of which the staid and conservative villagers have never before seen. Here we see the sisters as they wait with some worry and trepidation about what they have agreed to accept -- just what exactly will this feast that Babette wishes to present to them entail....? (I plan to add more detail later, so as of yet it's still a WIP -- but I'm posting it as is for now).....