sustained inv #2

plumed eyeballs 

colored pencils, watercolor, paper towel 

10x9.25"

This piece is what my ideas of what a living abstract thing would look like. Something with physically relatable features but nothing else makes sense. Although my investigation is on movement and living abstract objects, I wanted to see what would come out of a hard focus on the living aspect. 

I started with a brain dump sketch session and ended up with this idea as my piece. I used colored pencils for the "objects", then used watercolor on paper towels and positioned their folds whilst they were drying. 

I used paper towels for the background/foreground because I wanted to incorporate an inanimate object in its physical form, while the "living form" is on paper. Part of the piece is the idea of irony in a way.

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