My Brilliant Career

"Don't you ever dream there's more to life than this?" Sybylla, "My Brilliant Career".

This piece was inspired by the 1901 novel ”My Brilliant Career”, by Australian author Miles Franklin (Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879–1954)), and by the 1979 movie of the same name starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill. [link]
I started working on this piece ages ago, but never got around to finishing it until now. Not feeling especially well tends to make me fairly nostalgic. I grew up perhaps twenty minute’s drive from the landscape that inspired Ms Franklin’s novel, and now that I live on the North coast of Tasmania, I couldn’t be further from the dusty, bone-dry plains of the Riverina area of New South Wales that I remember.

The Synopsis:

Sybylla is a young woman with big dreams of becoming a well-known writer. She lives in the outback of Australia with her family struggling with the drought and monetary problems. Her journey to finding her self and making the hardest choices of her life begins when her mother says she can’t afford to keep her and sends Sybylla to her rich grandmother's house where she learns to love. But instead of pursuing love and becoming a rich housewife as expected, Sybylla does not wish to give up her big dreams of becoming a distinguished writer. She chooses a 'brilliant' career over love and getting married, getting a book published in 1901. (Source: [link])

Stock credits:

All digital painting by me, and all resources used are mine own, with the exception of:

Sybylla: *rammkitty-stock (In storage) Landscape: *PixellyPerfectStock [link] Homestead: *PixellyPerfectStock [link] Washing and basket: =justalittleknotty [link] Rooster and chicken: ~Alegion-stock [link] and *PixellyPerfectStock [link] Gumtree: ~mipossum [link] Handwriting brush: *redheadstock [link]
Textures: =Smoko-Stock [link] [link] =ftourini [link] ~SheisprettyStock (Texture no longer available.) !emptycanteen (Texture no longer available.)

P.S. All the stocks attributed to *PixellyPerfectStock are my own photography.




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