Painting
Emma Brown “Sunset in The Middle of Nowhere”
12in X 12in, Acrylic Paint, 2021
My first idea for this painting was a girl holding a balloon while looking at the sunset. Then I ended up making sunset too small, and it would have ended up with the girl looking way too small. So I changed it so it would be a house along with power lines.
The tools I used were acrylic paint, paintbrushes, and a paint pen. The process was easy, but it did take some time. I had to find the right shades of color to put in the order of which the colors of a sunset would look. When I had the order in which I wanted my colors, I had to carefully blend them at the edges so that the colors wouldn’t have looked bland against each other.
The painting is a representation of lots of homes in Iowa. Many people live out in a house or a farm surrounded by fields in the middle of nowhere. So this painting is meant to give that nostalgia feeling you get when you see something that reminds you of home.
The most difficult thing for me during the making of this painting was blending all of the colors in the sky together. I wanted to make it look at least somewhat natural. If I were to start all over again from the beginning, I would make the sunset bigger and have the design be what I had for my original idea.
The style of my painting is realism. The thing is about this painting is that it’s not even of my style of painting. I was doing a random painting of a drawing I did. But I still love it, I especially love how the stars ended up looking like.
I didn't have enough time to write an artist statement.
Emma Brown “Violet Void”
16in x 20in, acrylic paint, 2022
My idea for this painting was inspired by a painting that I did during the first semester. It was an eye in a black, white, and grey void, but the eye was blue instead of violet. I wanted to do an eye again, just in a different color and different background.
For my process, I started out by putting a dark violet down as a base coat for the background. Then I started putting different shades of violet along with hints of red in a circular shape around where the eye would, while making my way outward. That way it would look like you are looking into a tunnel.
My paint somewhat symbolizes the endless void of creativity, knowledge, and color in every eye.
The most difficult part about this painting would be making sure to make the color in the eye does not look like they are placed on top of each other, rather blended in together. But I managed to water the colors down just right so they blend together just enough at the edges.
The style of the painting is surreal because of the eye. But this painting is unique because yes it is surreal for the eye, but it is also abstract because of the background. I love how I managed to make the painting look like a tunnel.