Oil paintings on canvas completed August-December 2011:
Adjectives Escape Me
Images/symbols that "represent" ourselves, 16"x20"
Patterns
The idea behind this is how everyone's all about "breaking the mold," yet people are ultimately creatures of habit and we panic when things fall apart. This piece is 30"x38"
Nightmares
Detail:
This was a collaborative piece between me and two other students in my class, Kate and Claire. I have always wanted to paint something with another person, so I enjoyed doing this. We settled on doing one painting, splitting up the canvas into three sections and working into each other's areas (Mine is the left section, Kate did the middle, and Claire did the right side). The piece is about nightmares that we've had, and how they can tie into our worst fears. I feel that it was overall successful, but I will probably work into it again in the future. This painting is 36"x60" and a combination of oil and acrylic.
Drain
This painting is a metaphor for that moment when things are at their worst, then something happens that turns everything around and you know everything will be okay. I will probably work on this more in the future. This piece is 38"x30"
SNAP
Detail views:
This is my favorite out of the bunch. I used a lot of texture, including scraps of linen, threads, and paper that was glued down prior to painting. This piece has to do with how I view my future, how even though there are many things that are uncertain for me at this point, I am excited to see where life leads me. This is 36"x36" oil on canvas, with linen and newsprint paper underneath (with oil-based ink on the prints).
Metamorphosis
This is the last painting of the class; we were supposed to take one piece from the semester and paint a smaller version in 3 hours, and then add a new twist to it. The goal here was to illustrate uncertainty. It is 16"x16"
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