project 3

Description/ interpretation:

This piece has a lava like background, with flat black triangles across the middle and white drips coming from the top and bottom. Each one of the three triangles represents a specific event in my life and that is why the last one is cut off. It hasn't finished yet. The black represents the fact that each triangle was taken over by something else, something more sinister without me ever really realizing. The white drips represent a path because they force you into the middle, but they have places to turn just to trick you in the end. It always looks like there are many options, but in the end its all the same road. The coloured background represents light, and that it will always be underlying beneath darkness. Even when its not the first thing you see. 

Analyze:

This piece has many forms of contrast. Comparing the flatness of both the black and the white between the colourful background makes whatever you choose to look at stand out. The contrast also has to do with colour and the black versus white, white versus colour, black versus colour. I feel as if the drips coming from both the top and the bottom make it appear symmetrical as well. The painting has movement from the triangles moving across the page and the fact that the drips move up and down towards the triangles. 

Medium: 

for this piece I painted in acrylics. I started with the background by adding different shades of mostly orange, then red, then highlights of yellow. Once that dried I took white paint and glow in the dark paint and made the drips from the top, waited for those to dry and repeated with the bottom. Once that was finished I taped out triangles across the page and painted them in and removed the tape. I had no method behind this really, i just did it and it looked appealing to me. I made no plans or rough drafts. 

Self Reflect: 

I really like this piece because of the background. I like the flow of all of the colours by themselves and the way they all look together. I'm a geometric type of person so the triangles I like, but they are plain in themselves. I really like the drips because dripping things always reach out to me and because they are glow in the dark. I wish i would have layered the background more before doing anything with it but overall I actually really like this piece even though its plain and what you see is what you get.