THE WORLD DREAM BANK: TOPIC: Watercolors

The World Dream Bank:
Watercolors

Dream images rendered in watercolor (and similar media with spreading colors, such as silk-painting and dilute acrylic on watercolor paper). If it looks like watercolor and quacks like watercolor, it's here. If you want gummy thick oily Euro style, go to painting; some lighter, more Asian-style calligraphic art is in brushwork, though there's inevitably some overlap and judgment calls.

RELATED TOPICS: painting (acrylic, oils, gouache, tempera, etc) - Asian brushwork-style - pure digital art - felt pen and colored inks - pencil (much of it digitally tinted, I admit) - ink - photocollages and altered photos - comics - printed books and comix - woodblock prints and faux prints - picture-poems - sculpture - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

The World Dream Bank has 1500 dreams and dream images plus 500 other pages on dreamwork and shamanism, creativity, genius, art, surrealism and fantasy. Unless otherwise noted, all material copyright Chris Wayan, 2001-2006.

What this site is - How to read these entries - Ratings: profanity, sex, etc - Add your dreams! - Copyright - Downloading -

	ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD: by Wayan; 1997? Watercolor 14" x 17" A path arching up into the sky--an image that recurs in my dreams...
	ANGELUNE: by Wayan; 364 x 481, 1999. Acrylic painting The joyful animal-angel I feel myself to be in my happiest dreams.
	BLESS MY PHOBIA: by Wayan; dreamed 1992/8/15; text and silk painting. I was Eve's guardian angel the second time round, and I blew it again. But this time, it came out right.... CAUTION: BREASTS AND BEASTS
	DON'T PANIC: by Wayan; 1993. Nondream self-portrait, watercolor, 14 x 17". A self-portrait, or it was going to be, till the songbird and fish upstaged me...
	THE DOUBT: by Wayan; 2007/2/15, an undream trance-painting Painting an abstract watercolor, I drifted into trance, and found myself climbing a thorny slope. Had I gone wrong?
	ELEGANTE (ELLE EST GAUNTE): by Wayan; 1983, nondream body-image painting. Every year, as Americans get fatter, the fashion gets thinner (and I look more normal)...
	FISHERGIRL IN WATERCOLOR; OVAL: by Wayan; 1996, watercolor of a 1996/7/15 dream scene. A watercolor portrait of Leaf and me on our boat in the lost city, from the dream FISHERGIRL... CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY
	FLOATING: by Wayan; ink with acrylic wash 1982, digital tweaking 1997; sketch of daydream. Hokusai's wild mad lines inspired me to draw myself his way, floating asleep on the astral sea... CAUTION: NUDITY
	THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 440K, 27 watercolors, 2004/10/2, a dream of a furry ambitopia. A rabbit shaman orders his apprentice to drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. Ow! What's his problem? Well... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR
	HOP: by Emily Joy, Maddie, and Kathe, 2004/3/31; three linked dreams of a single character Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request...
	HORSELIKE BUT NOT: by Wayan; portrait of dream figure, 1997, acrylic, 14 x 17" My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs...
	I AM A SILKY IN THE SEA: by Wayan; 1986? Watercolor on shapeshifting in dreams. "I am a man upon the land; I am a Selkie in the sea..." Silky or selkie means a were-seal...
	IS SOLITUDE HOLY?: by Wayan; 1998; a watercolor on dreamwork's isolation. When I compare Julia Butterfly up her tree with those hermits who sat atop columns in the desert...
	MARJANE: by Wayan; 180K, 11 watercolors, 2005/6/3, a nightmare about... articide? I'm cartoonist Marjane Satrapi. I passively tag along with friends (and a fiance I tend to forget) in the Mission District of San Francisco. But they blunder into real trouble... CAUTION: VIOLENCE
	IN THE MERMAID'S DRESSING ROOM: by Wayan; 100K, 1993/12/18; an evolutionary dream. At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found... CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
	OH LEAD MY REM SOUL ON: by Wayan, 1991, silk painting of shamanic dream process I rise in animal form, and fly to a world as coherent as this one, guided by a greenhaired girl... CAUTION: NUDITY
	OOPSPACE: by Wayan; Wayan; a daydream/tribute watercolor, 1999 The poet e.e. cummings drew a book of astral fairytales with watercolors that felt a bit like my dreams...
	ORIOLE GIRL: by Wayan; 100K, 7 illus., 1992/1/23, a poem telling a psychic dream. While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love with an abused oriole-angel, and we try to heal each other... CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX
	PRISONS AND STRIPES: by Emily Joy; 2007/10/4, a lucid dream. In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits...
	RA CATS: by Wayan; 60K total, 2 versions of an image inspired by a cutting-board. A friend gave me a meat-cutting board, with channels for the blood. Eww. So why'd it become three cats worshiping the sun? CAUTION: NUDITY
	RAPID TRANSIT: by Wayan; 1999, acrylic watercolor, 14x17", nondream trance painting. I was just sitting, minding my own business when these golden wedge-birds divebombed me...
	THE ROAD TO HEAVEN: by Wayan; 1987, 14x17"; a watercolor map of shamanic dreaming The Rem Road I travel every night, from rocks and flesh to spooks and stars...
	SPORE FOREST: by Wayan; 1998. Watercolor, digital tweaking. Daydream image.. No dream, no plot. I saw myself as a horse grazing in a forest of giant mosses, lifting spore-packets...
	THREE HORSE MARSH: by Wayan; 1983, 71K. Acrylic triptych, each panel 18 x 24", group ca. 2x5' Dream-inspired landscape with herons and wild horses in a vaguely Japanese style...
	THE TUBA MAN: by Wayan; 1982/7/8, a career-advice dream. Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him...
	UTOPIA: by Wayan; 37 p, 3.9 MB, 2007/5/9, a painted essay on... wishes? An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence... CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART
	THE VEGETABLES OF SHADOW: by Wayan; 125K, 1999. Nondream surrealist art technique. Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between... CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH
	A WRITER'S MUSE: by Wayan, 1996/12/7, a dreamfable on creativity. A writer's found in his office mating with an ash-covered creature! But could she be his muse? CAUTION: NUDITY OR NOT? SEX OR NOT? NO ONE QUITE KNOWS...