giovedì 14 giugno 2012

Latest Project - Metro... Journeys... Pathways... Intersections... no title yet!

This project was inspired from Jackson Pollock, even though my technique of drip-dropping was quite different from his! The painting is now a combination of people walking either towards or away from the viewer, and the background consists of my 'Jackson Pollock' effect... I first drew out the people, then covered them with paper (with tape), and then put dollops of different colored acrylic paint (mixed with water) in various places and then dripped the paint around, by turning the canvas around.


Almost everyone who sees it tells me it reminds them of a metro map - which I think is quite fitting, since the photo which I am painting from (which I took myself, of course) is of people leaving a metro station. I like how I placed the walking people 'out of context', as in, removed the background and replaced it with something else, something abstract... I have kind of formed the idea that the intersecting lines of paint symbolize the journeys of the wandering people in the picture, and how people 'intersect', or meet other people in life...

On the far left is my mom, next to her is my dad, and the person I am painting (in the photo below) is my sister Olivia.


Above is what the painting looks like now - not finished yet but getting there!

My dad is not satisfied with how I have portrayed him, but in art it is very easy to emphasize wrinkles...