The semester is halfway through and it is time to move on to self guided assignments. This is both exciting because we now get creative freedom, and somewhat daunting because we must come up with ideas that will be fresh and innovative. The pressure to stay motivated gets raised even higher.
Recently I have been interested in geometry, the past, and family. I have really enjoyed working with old family photos and creating grids to translate them onto the canvas and not worrying about erasing the grid because it reveals the process of making the painting. I think it becomes more personal that way. I have also been really interested in creating 3D wooden surfaces to paint on. I am currently working on a few of these paintings.
For the self guided portion of Painting II I want to create a series of paintings based from old family photographs that are both meaningful to myself because of the personal connection with the images and people portrayed, and also make them meaningful and relatable to viewers who do not know the situations of figures shown. I want to do this by choosing images of common events that most people will have experienced at some point in life and be able to connect with. I will also try keeping the figures ambiguous enough to where the viewer can project their own relationships into the imagery.
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