For this concentration piece, I don't have in progress pictures because I did it all in one day. It's based on this journal entry I did: "In a car full of demons." It's a picture of my dad's car with a demon driving it down the road. I did the piece on linen panel in acrylic. I think it turned out pretty well for something I did in such short time. I would like to go in and add stuff later, when I have more time.
This is a painting I did pretty fast of a picture my dad took when he was younger. I used acrylic on a canvas panel. It's a church he went to at Christmas. I thought it fit with one of my poems, so I painted it. It's kind of crooked in the picture he took, so I did it that way in the painting, but I don't know if that translates well. I do think it looks okay, but I would like to clean up some of the areas.
For this concentration piece, I used the same blood orange picture that I used for the piece with my mom and her parents. I wanted to repeat that symbol into another piece. I did the orange in oil paint on wood, and it was kind of hard to get the paint to stay on the wood.
This is from a picture I took the same night I wrote a journal entry. It's of one of the flowers in my garden. I used oil on a 5x7 canvas, and I think it looks really nice. I tried to repeat some of the flower symbolism I used in my 3rd concentration by doing this piece. I think it ties some things together.
For this piece, I did a portrait of my sister with a different color palette. I used oil over acrylic and an 11x14 canvas. I plan on going back in and adding things, and I wanted to do something with wire.
For this concentration, I’m doing a painting of a hand and teeth. In cartoons and stories, a character has a dream about their teeth falling out when change is going to happen to them. I’ve struggled with accepting personal change, and this piece represents that. I’m doing it on a circular panel in acrylic paint.
For this piece, I’m using acrylic paint. I’m thinking about adding actual text from one of my journal entries into the background when I’m done, but it depends on what it looks like. The blue hands are the same color as the background so they look kind of ghostly. The most difficult thing so far has been getting the blue hands to look right; I haven’t had any problems with the regular hand/arm.
I did this piece in prismacolor and added some things in paint. It's a picture of two of my friends, Laura and Natalie. I chose these two friends because they're very similar people. Laura is 19 and lives in Oregon, working at a nuclear reactor, and Natalie is 17 and lives here in Apex, where she is the captain of the robotics team. They both love science, and they both draw in their spare time. I wanted to do a piece about my friends, because I think who you hang out with reflects who you are and what you value. I love my friends, and they are very important to me.
This is based on a picture that was taken shortly after my mom's brother died in a car accident. She threw my grandparents a party for their anniversary to try to cheer them up, but they still look worn out and sad. Shortly after this photo was taken, my grandmother died in car accident as well. I tried to incorporate a feeling of disconnectedness in the painting by twisting the image in a kind of surreal manner. I've always felt alienated from my family, possibly because my parents aren't big on sharing or expressing their emotions in a healthy way and the only other family members I've ever talked to outside my immediate family are my grandfather, my godmother, and my dad's aunt, and they all live in different states. I used to really want cousins and stuff when I was a kid and I would get kind of jealous hearing people talk about their awkward family reunions. My mom says she had 4 kids so we would never be lonely like she is, but I don't think it really worked out that way.
I did this painting on a panel because I really wanted it to lay flat. I did the base in acrylic and then I went over it in oil. I originally tried to do it on aluminum panel, but I don't think I prepared the panel right or maybe I went about painting it wrong, because the paint ended up looking kind of chunky and curdled. |
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