EMOTIONS THROUGH COLOUR
Last year in level 5, my theme was my emotion’s through color, I produced a mind map to link up the various emotions. I researched the color’s associated with the various emotion’s and symbolism that was associated with these emotions too.
I find putting idea’s down in a sketch book difficult as all my working out how to put the picture together in my head, and so I use the 2×2 ft. mdf boards as my sketches and in my head, I work out how to apply the paint as I am painting, so I take pictures as I go the painting at each stage.
I produced 4 large canvases, starting with the smaller 2x2ft mdf boards which I use as a form of sketching out my ideals exploring the symbol and colors associated with that emotion then progressing to the larger canvas which then became an abstract from the first sketch.
I’m using acrylic paint with talcum powder and pva glue mixed in to the color, the idea of this is to extend my paint as the talcum powder and glue mixed with water makes the paint go further as the color used doesn’t have to be much, this mix makes the paint thick and so you can have it as thick as you want. But this does give the paint a matt finish though. It also enables me to apply texture to the canvas I am working on.
With the large canvases, I used house hold paint brushes to apply the paint to canvas
