Painting II
"Self-Growth"
15x11, acrylic, paint marker, marker, paper, 2021This piece is my identity work. It's a self-portrait portraying surreal ideas. I'm supposed to be growing with my surroundings like the fruit that is around me. I did three cutouts of me because three is my lucky number. I chose to draw eyes on the fruit to resemble something watching me grow and the sun resembles the things that help me grow like my art, my family, and the things I love. I struggled with drawing my orange and I would definitely change it. Like all my projects I incorporate glitter because it always adds a shine I love. Acrylic is slowly becoming something I enjoy working with, mainly to create interesting surreal backgrounds, but it was something I'm not used to trying.
"Lobsta"
16x12, acrylic, paint marker, magazine, wood letters, 2021This is my narrative painting. It's a little scary, but it's ok. Lobsters symbolize self-control and nobility. I show somebody taking apart this lobster, like someone who isn't noble and doesn't have self- control is trying to consume these traits. There are skulls to represent a loss of reality this person has and then the people dancing idk why I just think they look cool. I used acrylic for the background and hit the canvas against the table to create a surreal pattern. My favorite part is the background of the blue behind the skulls. The white lines help them really pop. I would change the letters because they feel kind of tacky like some white mom thing you would find at hobby lobby.
"I Love Green And Purple"
10x8, acrylic, marker, cut out canvas/paper, 2021This is my mixed media piece. I have a drawing of me in Galveston Texas baby yee haw. It's showing that I'm questioning my existence right now. I don't know where I'm supposed to be or really even what I'm doing <3. I have eyes to resemble people who are watching me grow into the person I am today and without realizing it, they put pressure on who and what I have to be. The piece I cut out is supposed to be something familiar that feels off, so it's still connected. I want you to feel uncomfortable about the unevenness because I feel uncomfortable about these random feelings I can't pinpoint. I use a lot of glitter because it's cute and fun to work with. I also used a paint marker to outline and a white pen to add some oomph. I love green and purple and I feel they work so well together. I would change the person in the right corner because I feel like she feels off.
"Hands Are Annoying, We Know This"
8x5, watercolor, marker, glitter, 2021I absolutely hate drawing hands. I struggle with it no matter how much I practice, so usually, I do everything in my power to not have to draw hands in a picture (I just looked at my projects and the majority of them have hands so that's literally a lie). I think it's just a relevant thing for a lot of other artists as well. Hands are such an odd thing to replicate. This was just a random project I did. I wanted to use watercolor again because I haven't used it in forever. My favorite part is the way I was able to actually create this body using watercolor because It's really hard to manipulate the way you want. My least favorite part is the ugly ahh hands that I tried to cross out but you can still see the jumbled broken fingers.
