With this piece, I was kind of trying to show love in words, pictures, and colors. I put the word right in the middle because that's what the whole piece is about. I took some water color and made a little cloud in the top left corner so I would be able to put the word "love" in different languages. My original idea with the cloud was to make it look like a doily but the water color spilt through and messed it up. I ripped pieces of paper towel afterwards and put a whole bunch of gel medium on to apply them to the canvas. With the gel, it looked like it was peeling off of the canvas, revealing pages from the book Dear John, and that it was also part of the canvas. After the gel dried, I painted over the whole paper towel section with either black or white (depending on what was supposed to be coming up off the canvas). This part of my project was supposed to resemble holes in whatever kind of relationship you have because all relationships have them. They're problems that were encountered but kept as a memory because they weren't able to be patched back up. After that I put in some roses because, in my opinion, you have those moments when you're in love that you just feel like you're running through a field of flowers and smell roses and everything nice. You realize you're loved and you just feel good about yourself. That's just how I feel about it at least. To finish the project, I grabbed the end of my paint brushes, dipped them in paint and put dots all over the place. Just because. There's no special meaning about it. Just dots(:
The only issue that bothers me about my work is the highest and biggest blue flower. The part that goes onto the ripped paper towel doesn't look like its being lifted off the page. It just looks like it's been placed on and that's not what I was going for. I only realized what I had done after I finished the whole thing. I stepped back in the middle of the project though because I felt like I needed something more than my original idea. Turns out that I just needed to finish to see that I had it all in my head and I didn't really need anything more. The whole time I was creating this I was thinking about how things could work. I never once thought about how it couldn't work and I feel like that really helped me out. Personally, I mess up more when I think about things so that's why I tend to create pieces without having a 100% sure plan.
The only issue that bothers me about my work is the highest and biggest blue flower. The part that goes onto the ripped paper towel doesn't look like its being lifted off the page. It just looks like it's been placed on and that's not what I was going for. I only realized what I had done after I finished the whole thing. I stepped back in the middle of the project though because I felt like I needed something more than my original idea. Turns out that I just needed to finish to see that I had it all in my head and I didn't really need anything more. The whole time I was creating this I was thinking about how things could work. I never once thought about how it couldn't work and I feel like that really helped me out. Personally, I mess up more when I think about things so that's why I tend to create pieces without having a 100% sure plan.