Bipolar Kitchen #11

Sustained Investigation #11

7 x 5

Color Pencil and Marker

This is my 11th Sustained Investigation where I drew my kitchen from the perspective of my table. My inquiry question is, "How can I use color and texture to concentrate on the emotions of landscapes?" For this project, I wanted to capture a crucial moment that had happened recently during my senior year in which I opened my decision email from my top college and had gotten denied, hence why there is a laptop present in the project. I remember when I read the words on the laptop scream, a bunch of emotions flew through my body, and I wanted to replicate that idea in my drawing. I mostly felt sadness with the decision I received, anger at the world, and enraged in myself. Because of how chaotic that moment was for me, I decided to incorporate more than one emotion in my drawing, as well as add those harsh black lines of division to show the changes in color that corresponded with my feelings, also supporting that chaotic idea. Initially, I was gonna have all the colors flow together and those black lines were not there before, but I soon realized it kind of looked calming with the blending, which is the exact opposite of how I felt. I continued using marker and color pencil for this project like I did with my last one because I really liked using them, and I felt the bold colors with the marker and the blending with the color pencil would look best for this sustained investigation. I wanted to push color in this project especially because I felt the emotions I dealt with during that time were very harsh and bold, and the different color palettes would help strengthen those feelings. I also added darker lines and more shadows to bring out that rough idea better because my project looked too soft with the thin lines and light shading. I really like the perspective I chose too because It's different from all of the rest of my sustained investigations. Overall, I'm very happy with how my project turned out, because I think I have strengthened my recent projects by making my inquiry question a bit more clear, pushing color palettes, and playing with different shading and depth to support the emotions I am trying to portray. I've never done a project that portrays more than one emotion and although I was nervous about how this one would turn look with all the different colors, It came out exactly how I wanted it to without being extremely overwhelming and confusing, but busy and harsh enough to get my message across. I am definitely going to continue adding more detail when it comes to depth and shading, and I want to extend more with minor detailing to make my work a bit more realistic.