If you see, that on a painting
A painter drew a stream
Or a fir-tree with white frosting
Or an orchard there has been
Or a snowy plain with clouds
Or a field and a small hut
The painter can be proud –
“landscape” is what he’s got!
Each of us imagined the landscapes, which should be the backgrounds for actions happening in the cartoon, in our own way. This is a far from complete list of details:
- steppe (with wind)
- a well (with a bucket)
- a cemetery (with enclosure)
- a forest (primeval one, there are animals in it, and nothing can be seen at all)
- a field (first class grain, hybrid varieties, 25-30 hundredweights per hectare due to drought)
- mountains (with mountaineers, cable-railway and Courchevel)
- a river (banks are steep but not too deep)
- an abyss (deep and scary)
- a village (there, on the hill, chimneys discharge smoke, and who knows why are they firing their stoves in Summer)
- a flock (of cows, horses, pigs, tourists)
- a monument to the unknown vandal (in bronze, statuesque)
- crossroads (with a stone “Wherever you go – you are DEAD!”)
- cabbage beds (with cabbage, warden and pests)
- an orchard (apple one. Romanticism)
In order to put all the images of the landscape together, we had to negotiate and draw, or go outdoors and take photos. But the crew decided not to chose an easy way and that is why we have chosen to objectify the landscape in an artistic modeling. We spent tones of modeling clay, sheaves of matches, a lot of time and plenty of nerves on this landscape. In our opinion it turned out very very nice. As a result we’ve got a landscape made out of modeling clay, sense of solid satisfaction, plenty of positive emotions, a clear idea of scene of action. And clear understanding of the fact that just as well we could not do it at all.
