Pigment

After my review today, I have had some great idea’s!

Idea one to record myself painting, I think showing my process would be a great idea because I get very involved in to my work, with my latest piece I was listening to music and started dancing while painting the music went with my brush strokes and because of the size of the canvas I was able to move around a big space, I enjoyed jigging around moving with the painting and music was a great experience.

Also because of the type of painting I do is mostly abstract it involves a lot of mess, by the end of the painting I was covered in paint on my face in my hair clothes even my feet so to record what I look like during a painting would make me part of the artwork. After my painting I was very temped to take a selfie with my painting! has the paint was very amusingly up one side of my face.  think in the future I will.

Idea two, too take pictures of smaller sections of my last painting to show detail, there is so much detail that can’t be seen in the photographs I have taken so it would be great to see that. I though taking some more picture of the mess the paint made on the floor would be a great idea too. as the colours are quite beautiful.

My process usually starts with images from sites such as Pinterest, saatchiart.com and tumblr and create an image I would like to make from these artworks. Often the idea is already formed in my head I just need some help with inspiration.
With the painting shown on this post I started with looking at paintings by Marta Zawadzka Called Memory and Georgina Vinsun called Vanda. I found this images on Saatch’s Pinterest.
I already had the idea of a vast wild flower field, looking at the chosen artworks helped me put my images in my mind on to the canvas.
I wanted to make a wild flower field because it is my ‘happy place’ as a suffer from anxiety and depression I use techniques to help me cope one is a meditation exercise that takes me away from a potential ‘triggering’ situation.
In the meditating exercise I imagine being in a vast wild flower field in the sun with bright colours just like the paintings. It is calming and helps me relax, that is one of the main reasons I enjoy to paint.
In this painting the main message is joy and happiness the subject, colours and process brings me happiness and I want to carry the feeling over to people that look at it.