I am using acrylic as well as watercolor paint to demonstrate unity and rhythm through my paintings. The main motif throughout my paintings is a twist upon the ordinary appearance of nature into the unordinary. My art demonstrates a guttural feeling which communicates to the world my views of the world through an abstract image. The paintings I will be demonstrating to you today are, Watercolor Courtyard, Mystical Lake, Purple Desert, Purple Boat at Sunset, Bird Wings and Wheat Field. Each of these paintings inspiration came from nature.
My art work is created through the use of watercolors and acrylic paint. I use Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O’Keefe as inspirations for my art work through Van Gogh’s brilliant use of color, line and shape, and O’Keefe’s paintings for the ordinary taken to a recognizable and yet still somewhat abstract work of art. I tend to find that my paintings are of everyday scenes of nature with an abstract spin to them. When using acrylic paint I tend to vaguely blend the paints together. I have found that through using this technique the lines and colors that are produced give my works of art some depth as well as an illusion of light highlights and dark shadows on each individual object. Whereas when i paint in watercolors I tend to have my paints more dry to give more of a definite solid line. This is demonstrated effectively through Watercolor Courtyard. Through this specific painting this technique is quite evident. Notice how the tree, rocks and the door are the only three objects throughout the whole painting that are painted in solid. There are no white spots visible. I did this so that these objects could be separated from the choppy colored background walls and the foreground leaves covering the ground.
I create a sense of movement and depth through my paintings through the use of bold and daring lines. Whenever I paint in acrylic, my paints are never fully mixed and are also various shades of the same color to give the false appearance of depth, shadowing and highlights. Like Van Gogh, I also will very minutely outline some parts of the objects in my paintings to help give some objects form while still being seen as “revolving”. I feel that this technique creates more interest throughout all of my pieces. I also feel that the use of bold and quite apparent unblended lines helps to further drive my theme for my paintings. Bold lines equal bold ideas.
The main goal of my art work is not to show realism, but rather my view of the world. How everything is made up of bold and vivid colors whether this is realized or not by the viewers. I try to take scenes from nature and break them down into their most simple forms and colors. Even though everyday life is complex through appearance, in my view it really is just a bunch of singular simple layers that together create a mass complex thing. I try to capture through my work nature’s most simplicity.
My art work is created through the use of watercolors and acrylic paint. I use Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O’Keefe as inspirations for my art work through Van Gogh’s brilliant use of color, line and shape, and O’Keefe’s paintings for the ordinary taken to a recognizable and yet still somewhat abstract work of art. I tend to find that my paintings are of everyday scenes of nature with an abstract spin to them. When using acrylic paint I tend to vaguely blend the paints together. I have found that through using this technique the lines and colors that are produced give my works of art some depth as well as an illusion of light highlights and dark shadows on each individual object. Whereas when i paint in watercolors I tend to have my paints more dry to give more of a definite solid line. This is demonstrated effectively through Watercolor Courtyard. Through this specific painting this technique is quite evident. Notice how the tree, rocks and the door are the only three objects throughout the whole painting that are painted in solid. There are no white spots visible. I did this so that these objects could be separated from the choppy colored background walls and the foreground leaves covering the ground.
I create a sense of movement and depth through my paintings through the use of bold and daring lines. Whenever I paint in acrylic, my paints are never fully mixed and are also various shades of the same color to give the false appearance of depth, shadowing and highlights. Like Van Gogh, I also will very minutely outline some parts of the objects in my paintings to help give some objects form while still being seen as “revolving”. I feel that this technique creates more interest throughout all of my pieces. I also feel that the use of bold and quite apparent unblended lines helps to further drive my theme for my paintings. Bold lines equal bold ideas.
The main goal of my art work is not to show realism, but rather my view of the world. How everything is made up of bold and vivid colors whether this is realized or not by the viewers. I try to take scenes from nature and break them down into their most simple forms and colors. Even though everyday life is complex through appearance, in my view it really is just a bunch of singular simple layers that together create a mass complex thing. I try to capture through my work nature’s most simplicity.
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