The Art SBA

This is a series documenting the start to finish process of the CSEC Visual Arts S.B.A. This series was made to be more cinematic and drama filled, capturing the excitement and suspense leading up to the final SBA submission.

This Series Composes of 6 Episodes, 6 artworks, 1 theme, 1 topic and 2 Mediums.

Let's start with Medium 1, Drawing.

Description Of Artwork:

"Echos of Pain" is an artwork that explores the complexities of human emotion, particularly in Woe. The piece features ten objects, including a yellow box cutter, painkillers, tissue boxes, sponge balls, posters, and an empty Absolut Vodka bottle. The deep blue hue of the cloth creates a sorrowful mood, highlighting the tension between visible joy and hidden struggles.

Interpretation:

This artwork comprises a box cutter, a box of tissues, painkillers, stress balls with faces, a bottle of alcohol, and a flyer that shows the objects society aligns with depression and emotional distress. 

This artwork is inspired by Pablo Picasso's "Blue Period"; hence, I chose a blue hue throughout the artwork. 

Using these colors helps emphasize the sad, heavy emotions associated with emotional distress. 

This artwork coincides with my journal theme, "Emotions."

Description Of Artwork:

This artwork beautifully explores the coexistence of joy and woe through its striking composition and emotional use of color. The vibrant blue sea and sky evoke freedom and serenity, contrasted by the dark foreground, symbolizing introspection or unease. The golden label, "Sweet Surprise," suggests fleeting joy, while the scattered objects imply subtle disorder. The open window frames the expansive backdrop, balancing external beauty with the enclosed, shadowy space. Together, these elements reflect life's duality, where light and shadow, happiness and sorrow, coexist, creating a bitter narrative of emotional complexity and resilience.

Interpretation:

This artwork, of an alcohol bottle and a whisky canteen on a window cill, expresses my journal theme, "Emotions," by its center-framed composition and choice of paper and pencil colors. I used colors such as blue to continue the feeling of emotional distress and yellows to compliment the blue in the highlights. The choice of yellow paper allowed for a slight Ephoric look to the colors on the paper, making it look more surreal. The window frame and scenery behind the subject (the bottles) show the free outside world whilst being trapped inside, coping with one's emotions.

Description Of Artwork:

This pencil crayon and charcoal artwork showcases an assortment of items aimed at portraying the theme of emotions. This piece contains items such as hibiscus flowers, spoiled limes, a cup, a bible, a dead rose, dried up flower petals and a candle all laid on a table with a black cloth as the background.

The use of colours and contrast in this piece helps to project the vibrant pink and green hues of the flowers amidst the black lifeless background. This symbolises emotional intensity and the impermanence of life.

Interpretation:

This artwork shows an assortment of items: a spoiled lime, a bible, a dead rose, an incense, a candle, a bougainvillea flower, and dried flowers. This artwork utilizes color to portray emotions in the direction of introspection, with pink being the main color. I used color as the main focal factor of this artwork, making the center bright with the colors of the flowers and everything else on the outside dark and grayscale with lead and charcoal. The Bible symbolizes deliverance and a strong connection to religion. The flowers and spoiled lime showcase life's fragile nature, showing that nothing lasts forever.