Artist Inspired Project

The setting of my artwork is the desert at night with a group of elephants on top of a mountain like structure. The work was made using paper silhouettes that I taped onto the canvas and then spray painted that which is what the black is made out of and I then decided to use selective color to make different pieces of color stick out and pop off the page. I chose to create this specific artwork because I wanted to pay tribute to where my family culture is from. I also felt that it would be cool to tie in some things that kara walker did by making silhouette art and not only put silhouettes on a canvas but to also make a backdrop.

I think that I used a high horizon line and that allowed me to add more features underneath the horizon lines. The horizon line is behind the elephants. My project evolved through multiple stages. The first being an idea of drawing gandhi’s face on the bodies of some famous pieces of art then I realized that there was no way that that was going to come out nicely and that no one looking at night art would be able to tell what I was trying to do. I decided to do silhouettes with some splatter paint on top of it so that when I pulled off the paper the silhouettes would be revealed, but I then realized that wasn’t going to work because the acrylic paint that I got was not very willing to be thrown which is what the original idea consisted of. I then decided to spray paint a background which is what I did and that is what the black is. I then added the selective color and built the distance in the image by adding the color and the shadows.

The meaning behind the artwork is to pay tribute to where I came from in a sense. I really wanted to show what I was proud of by showing things that the majority of people don’t really understand when they look at me.

My project relates to my life because I am 50% Indian In my D.N.A and a whole bunch of other stuff in the other half of my D.N.A. This project really means a lot to me because not only is it a big part of me but it is also something that I worked hard on and I put a lot of passion into. The one thing I would change or add would be some shadowing on the darker grey that the elephants are standing on.