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.
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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. I listened to Kelly Clarkson's "Behind These Hazel Eyes" on repeat while I was working on this piece, hence the title. The mood is kind of wintry, and it's meant to evoke feelings of nostalgia in myself. I lived in Ohio for the first 8 years of my life, and it snowed very often there. This kind of loosely follows my "journal entries" theme, but it does tie into the larger idea of identity and my sense of self. I used acrylic for the images and put a quilt-like pattern in the background with paper and thread. I plan on adding another picture in the bottom left corner, and I want to go in and add ribbon and more sequins and patterns.
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