1 LOVE (2 become 1)
The original idea for this emotion was a small canvas I had painted a few years ago but fitted to what I wanted to portray, this is when two people have fallen in love and their souls become one. With the smaller picture, I have applied quite a lot of texture with pallet knife, when going on to the larger canvas which is 5ft. square I applied the paint with large household paint brushes. Applying the color in bands and merging the edges in to each other.
I love both my pictures, I am very pleased how they both turned out, originally the figures were meant to go on to the larger canvas, but after I had finished applying the color and stood back from it I realized that in fact the picture didn’t need them, it worked on its own.
2 CONTMENT
The emotion contentment is that feeling of immense pleasure and satisfaction, for me it felt like white light was radiating from my body so I have tried to imply this, in the first picture I used a water lily which is the symbol for contentment, with the column of white light bursting from the water lily and so the large canvas which is 5ft. x 3ft. has what looks like a container, this represents my inner self, and the column of light is the radiating feeling of contentment.
All three pictures have worked out well, the column of light I achieved by cutting a template to the shape I wanted and then attached it to the painting with masking tape, this meant that the areas covered by the template didn’t get covered by the paint I was about to apply. To get the column to have to look of light with floating particles in it, I used a short bristled paint brush which I used it to flick or splash paint on to the canvas, I do feel the effect has work well.
3 DESIRE (Burning Desire)
Desire is all enveloping, it can consume you, I started with the symbol which is a Camellia because of its gentle curves represent desire, passion, and then depicted a molten ball of fire, the last canvas is 6ft.x6ft and having created the center I then brushed out sections of the color starting from deep red through to orange at the edges. I was aiming for the intense feeling of passion, when I stand in front of it, it makes me feel totally enveloped and at one with it.
This one I do love to look at, stand by, I love the feeling of the color pulling me in to it, the center is quite textured as I wanted to give the feeling that the fire was burning intensely and deeply, and then the all-consuming feeling of desire and passion with the intense red going through to orange surrounding the molten pot of desire.
