this artwork thing... it's not even that hard once i get started on it. its just the 'waiting for inspiration to come' phase that takes a really long time. but i'm not totally off track though, i've done 2 artworks in a matter of 2 days. which means that since november, i've done 5 artworks, so i'm actually right on track. although i'll post the 5th one much later because i still have some finishing touches to do.
i was having a hard time sleeping and i suddenly had a flicker of inspiration last tuesday night, so i picked up one of the 3 blank canvases stacked under piles and piles of clothes and started laying out my art materials on my bed. like a whore, if i had a choice, i prefer to work from my bed.
i wanted a funky colored base so i started the background with purple. i used up one full small tube of purple acrylic for this. since i used acrylic, it dried really fast. so i proceeded to draw the outline of my subject. a foliage design inspired by jason gaylor's brushes. while i was doing this, bruce springsteen's secret garden was randomly played on my iPod. kinda uncanny. so i shall name this artwork ... SECRET GARDEN.
i needed a contrasting colour that goes well against deep purple. i didn't want yellow. i did white against dark colour already. figured that i didn't really want a funky painting afterall. i wanted gold. but i don't have gold acrylic. so, i settled for a light brown colour. well, some may call the colour ochre, or clay, or mud, or dark blondish, dark yellow. i call it Liquid Shit.
and then i did the round thingys. for now, all my artworks have but one common recurrent theme. circles. or rounded curvy shapes that used to be a full circle in its previous life or perhaps aspire to become a circle in the next. the foliage kinda looks like a medieval malaysian tree money (if there's such an era).
here's the completed 'secret garden'.
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