Tags
animals, Brer Rabbit, characters, children, expressionistic drawing, graphite, illustration, pencil, stories, story art, text in art

Part three of the Brer Rabbit triptych. This also has the story written into the background for texture and to spark the viewer’s curiosity about the old stories. Many we have heard since childhood, like the story of the Tar Baby, but seldom do we hear about the original, old stories that didn’t become so popular. Perhaps they remained obscure for good reasons, many of them were too gruesome to be children’s stories.

