Mystery and Imagination

My first blog entry! So today we were given the theme for our second art project; mystery and imagination. After reading the exam book my initial inspiration bubble came in the form of mythology, and artistic rendering of mythological stories. However having been studying the pre-Raphaelites in my English lessons I was then drawn to this idea, as I thought the pre-Raphaelite artists similarly liked to present classic English stories such as Ophelia into their paintings.

Ophelia is the fictional character from the play 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare who tragically commits suicide by drowning herself in a river. This is the most famous artistic rendering, by John Everett Millais.