40×40 inches acrylic and metallic paint ink and glitter on canvas.
I have finished my black hole series, I really enjoyed the process.
I started with watered down paints and over layed different shades go blue and green until the paints bended together in a pleasing way. I preferred this to the first method I did, on the other painting I painted with think paints and did not get the blending I wanted. There are so many differences between the two even though they are matching paintings but personally the second one is my favourite. This is because I learnt the processes I wanted in the first painting and brought it all together in the second one.
I painted these because I wanted to express my feelings of anxiety. Blue seemed like the perfect colour to show this. Although I love the colour blue and it doesn’t always mean depression and sadness to me this time it did. I choose to paint two, one to represent my depression the other anxiety but they ended up meshing in to one in each of the painting, as they do in life.
The progression of this painting was a lot more straight forward than the first painting as I knew I little better what I was doing in this one, I knew the effects I wanted to use.
Here is a picture of the development.
I knew that it was not complete here because it was missing depth layers and detail. So I layered it up with lighter blue tones and used a polka doting effect to add detail.
