The Imagining of "Wolf's Bride": in the beginning...

about four years ago, my wife and I were living in a small apartment in Minneapolis where she was a student in grad school and I was just working in a food service job that I wasn't terribly fond of. It wasn't the job so much, it was a good job, and I was working for a very good company. It was me. I was the problem. I'd always seen myself as a more creative person. Arty stuff. That's the kind of stuff I'm good at, and generally, that is where my passions will be most active and my talents best utilized. Not a lot was asked of my creative-arty abilities in my food service job, so, I often felt as though that part of my personality was atrophying. To combat this, I'd invent projects that I could do by myself. they all started off with the best of intentions, but ultimately they all suffered the same fate. The initial inception of the idea was all fireworks and fanfare but as the days dragged on, the novelty wore off and the ideas were dropped by the wayside.
One such idea came from a compilation book of Finnish Fairy tales. The book contained chapters 4 through 8 of a 1928 Estonian fairytale called "Wolf Bride" by Aino Kallas. I wanted to interpret them into illustrated format.
Didn't happen.
Flash forward, I'm am now an Art and English major at the University of Minnesota and I've been given an opportunity to work independently on a project of my own choosing and immediately... I thought of nothing. I honestly did not know what to do with such an opportunity. So, I met with my professor and told her the situation, and through a process brain storming, we decided that I'd give "Wolf Bride" another go. And that's when she suggested... A Blog.
Over the next few months I will be posting images and notes on the creation of the work. Not a lot to show right now, just a few sketches. This is the first blog I've ever done, I hope some of you will find it interesting.