Requiem Art

I was lured by the siren call of not one but 2 of KeelyVH’s custom outfits as prizes for the fourth installment of the Dalicious photo contest that I entered Pajelle. This caused all kinds of problems in the status quo: Princessa won the second Dalicious, and she is not the kind of doll that will ever give up her crown, especially not to another doll under the same roof.

The theme for Round 1 was Summertime. Pretty open-ended. I immediately thought of the Barbie Pool set I picked up on clearance a few years back that has been sitting in my basement with the other unused doll furniture I’ve collected. If the pool had been bigger (it’s about deep enough to come up to Barbie’s knees) I had dreams of Princessa with a fake shark fin, but…well things just didn’t work out that way. She’ll play her hand, just not this round.

This is the picture I ended up going with. It’s simple, and with the required contest size of 500×375 pixels, complicated pictures can backfire and look cluttered.

Runner-up was this shot. I almost went with this picture, but I felt it didn’t focus enough on Pajelle, who is supposed to be the contestant. And while it does a great job at saying ‘adorable’, not quite as good of a job at saying ‘summer’

Zoomed out just a teensy bit more, and it becomes pretty obvious just how tiny the pool is. Still cute, but at this size, three is a crowd, and the pool’s at capacity