The Crow


 My animation of Die Krähe, a song from Franz Schubert's Wintreisse cycle.Unlucky in love, a man wanders in a winter landscape, followed by a hungry crow. Faithful to the grave. But this one has an ending more Sopranos than Schubert.

Most of this movie was drawn on individual frames in charcoal on gray paper and watercolor crayons on mylar, 8½ x 11 inches, which I scanned into my computer. But the final culvert scene was painted and drawn in pastel pencils and acrylic on a 30 x 40 inch canvas, on which I then painted Culvert. Each frame was drawn, shot with a digital camera, and erased.

Many many thanks to Matt Tatus, tenor, and Bob Boury, piano, who performed and recorded the Schubert song for me at UALR. Ian and Leif, look out!

WC


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