The main qualities that my painting has is colour, texture, and variety. Colour shines through this peice. In the middle of the painting there is light and warm colours. Mostly light green, red, and yellow. As you slowly move away from the center to the outer edges of the painting the colours change to cold and dark colours. Mostly purple, dark blue, and teal. With some dark red. My whole painting has extreme texture. Since I used drywall puddy and made lines and lumps on the board, some paint sticks out more then others. The paint that lays on top of the puddy bulges is raised and catches the eye A lot more than the splatter laying on the flat part of the board. Since I splattered the paint instead of using brush strokes the paint skips across the wood in random lines and shapes making the texture unpredictable. The amount of variety in this peice is very well. There is variety in the amount of paint from the center to the outside of the painting. In the center there is more think drops and very tight together. As you move to the outside of the painting the drops are more separated and almost spastic lines and techniques.
In the end this artwork was definitely my favourite project.
Jake, I'm so glad to hear how much you enjoyed this project. I know you've been thinking of doing something like this for well over a year! Now that you've had the chance to complete your artwork, would you want to do something similar in the future? I remember (maybe last year?) that you wished you could take balloons filled with paint and throw them at a canvas -- wouldn't that be fun?
ReplyDeleteIn your analysis, you've been able to discuss many of the elements, but you only mentioned one principle (variety). If you like, we can take another look at the artwork together? We can go through the principles (the 'pink' words), and see which ones are more important in this artwork.