Saturday, December 13, 2014

What's this supposed to be?

DISCLAIMER: I created this piece over the summer.





Seriously, what is this supposed to be? I really don't know.. The inspiration for this piece did not come to me until after I thought I was done with it but I realized that just because the paint is dry, doesn't mean the painting is actually done. Although sometimes it does, a contradiction.

I started with a blank watercolor canvas. Just plain, white, and clean. I spray painted the blank canvas with yellow spray paint, I had to wait two days for it to completely dry.

I took blue painter's tape and made a line down the middle of the canvas, the long way. I took blue acrylic paint and started painting the bottom half of the canvas. I added more coats to the left part of it and slowly let the paint run out, causing a fade in the paint. I had to wait for this to dry, so I waited another two days.

Once that was dry I took pink spray paint and did the same thing on the right side of the canvas, but it was easier to fade the spray paint because I could just loosen the pressure on the nozzle. The pink paint leaked a little bit onto the strip down the middle, under the tape.

After that dried I left it alone, the infinity symbol came later. I didn't know what to do with the top part so I asked my teacher, an odd man, for ideas. His response: "Are you really asking me what to paint? Guys, she's asking me what she should paint! Is she kidding?" Everyone laughed. "I don't know kid, paint some stripes or polka dots or squares, just paint. You shouldn't have to ask what to paint."
Oh Mr. Wright, you were so right. Painting wasn't really ever my thing, I can't even paint a still life.

I took his suggestion and grabbed and orange spray paint can. I kept making large polka dots and let that dry, figuring I was done. Within the next week I moved on to another project. Our last two classes were upon us, and I had nothing to do. I was sitting against the wall, doodling in my sketchbook. "Hey! I don't pay you to sit around, start painting!" Mr. Wright was in front of me.
"You don't pay me at all, I have nothing to do, and you said we can't start something new." I responded.

He went over to where our work was stored and pulled mine out. " I think you can touch this one up." He said, tossing the product at me. I stared at it for a while. It was plain but I liked it. I decided to touch it up so I grabbed some paint, yellow, black, blue, pink, and I mixed the pink and yellow. I took the yellow and made the snake down the middle line. Eh. I added the lines in between the curves. I guess it looked better.
I got the black and made the original infinity symbol, basic. Then I took the blue and watered it down, and spread it around the left side of the symbol. I did the same for the pink on the right. I guess that looked cool.

The top part still looked bare with just the polka dots. I took the mixed color, it came out kind of like a coral, and started painting lines in the corners and sides. It still looked bare so I added little people, dancing on the polka dots. I don't understand where it came from, it just kind of happened.
I had to put my name on the side because it was the piece I was putting in our final exhibition, they needed to know whose name to put under each work.

2 Comments:

At December 15, 2014 at 10:38 AM , Blogger Sterling Joseph said...

This teacher clearly knows what he's doing. This is bananas! The colour choice is fantastic. My favourite part is definitely the bottom half, with the pink polka dots mixed with the blue. Absolutely beautiful.

 
At December 16, 2014 at 6:35 AM , Blogger Unknown said...

^ Thank you, Sterling! It means a lot to me. :)

 

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