All in the Well

Original 9" x 12" acrylic on acid-free paper painting inspired by an entry in W.C. Hazlitt's Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore. There is a short entry that names a children's game "All in the Well". This is a surreal and macabre interpretation of that entry. It's a little bit spooky and a little bit campy. A hapless young girl is the masked quarry about to be sacrificed to the tentacled monster in the well by her sadistic playmates. Creepy fun!

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All in the Well plus Tortilla Chips

A work in progress inspired by W.C. Hazlitt's Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore. There is an entry for a children's game called "All in the Well" but no description is given. So I've had a pretty good time guessing what kind of game this would be. I've settled on depicting sort of a campy, kitschy picture of three girls bringing a fourth girl in a rabbit mask as the quarry for this tentacled thing that resides in the well.

 In the middle picture I accidentally got my snack of tortilla chips in the shot. I wished that I had some salsa, but I did not. I had to eat them totally plain. I suffer for my art.

All in the Well

I've become quite exasperated with every permutation of children in and out of wells as I've sketched some idea for this lost children's game called "All in the Well".

I've decided to descend into mad, over the top, camp, and throw my children into the well as sacrifices to this tentacled thing that is reaching out from the well. There. All in the Well. You are welcome.

All in the Well

There is a game mentioned in my Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore called "All in the Well" to which no description is given. I'm noodling around with how I think it should look in these sketches.

The first question at issue- is it a game where you want to be in the well, or not?