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Part of my final art project, due April 21.

These are the three bases to the cages [you can see the holes where the bars will go]. Yes, the picture was taken on my bed. Like my sheetz and nifty squishy pillow?

The grey one: That's the one for the huddled over depressed person. When I was doing these I didn't really have anything in particular in mind for what I was doing. I knew I wanted this person's to be just a sort of dull grey. Then as I was doing it, I--funnily enough--got inspiration from Death Note! The sort of windblown greyness makes me think of the Shinigami world, like you're just looking across a boring landscape. Anyway the meaning behind it? That this person is just stuck in this grey dull world created by their own mind....something like that. I still have to work it out a bit more.

The blobby one: That's for the person going crazy. The background is dark because they're in a dark place, emotionally and mentally. The splashes of color represent violence and acting out. This was really fun to do, because I basically just took every color there was and mushed it all together, then occasionally took a specific color and smudged it across the wood. I absolutely love painting--but ONLY when I'm not painting anything specific! I think I'd be more of an abstract painter, hehe.

The yellow one: For the person leaving their cage. I didn't want to make it fully white, firstly because the person himself is going to be white, and secondly because I didn't want it to be just a perfect solid color. Especially white, which represents purity and whole...someness? Being whole. So I chose yellow...I guess because even though it's not perfect, it's not horrible either. And that's what the person is realizing and accepting, is that nothing is perfect, everything has a bit of color smudged into the otherwise perfectly white canvas. And it's up to you as to whether or not that color is dark or light.

I didn't use a paintbrush to do these. My teacher showed me how to create a sort of "wash" of paint, so that underneath you could still see the wood. Or at least still see that it was wood, and it'd give it a more authentic sort of feel to it. So I basically splooshed a blob of color onto a pallet, mixed it around and, when I was happy with the shade, I took a piece of flat cardboard and just smeared the color across the wood. Which is why especially in the white/yellow one you can see lines/strokes. Obviously with the less-than-perfect camera quality, you can't really TELL that it's a wash and not normal painting.

OH WELLZ.

I know this was a long description....sorry! Let me know what y'all think!

P.S.--For the crazy person's cage: I broke a beer bottle [so much fun!!], and it was awesome enough to keep the neck and base of the bottle completely whole. So I came up with this idea to arrange the broken shards on the bottom of the cage in a way that makes it look like you just took the bottle by the neck and cracked it against something, and it's lying there, broken. It looked awesome when I tried it out...I just hope there'll be enough room in there for the person, too!

Description
Part of my final art project, due April 21.

These are the three bases to the cages [you can see the holes where the bars will go]. Yes, the picture was taken on my bed. Like my sheetz and nifty squishy pillow?

The grey one: That's the one for the huddled over depressed person. When I was doing these I didn't really have anything in particular in mind for what I was doing. I knew I wanted this person's to be just a sort of dull grey. Then as I was doing it, I--funnily enough--got inspiration from Death Note! The sort of windblown greyness makes me think of the Shinigami world, like you're just looking across a boring landscape. Anyway the meaning behind it? That this person is just stuck in this grey dull world created by their own mind....something like that. I still have to work it out a bit more.

The blobby one: That's for the person going crazy. The background is dark because they're in a dark place, emotionally and mentally. The splashes of color represent violence and acting out. This was really fun to do, because I basically just took every color there was and mushed it all together, then occasionally took a specific color and smudged it across the wood. I absolutely love painting--but ONLY when I'm not painting anything specific! I think I'd be more of an abstract painter, hehe.

The yellow one: For the person leaving their cage. I didn't want to make it fully white, firstly because the person himself is going to be white, and secondly because I didn't want it to be just a perfect solid color. Especially white, which represents purity and whole...someness? Being whole. So I chose yellow...I guess because even though it's not perfect, it's not horrible either. And that's what the person is realizing and accepting, is that nothing is perfect, everything has a bit of color smudged into the otherwise perfectly white canvas. And it's up to you as to whether or not that color is dark or light.

I didn't use a paintbrush to do these. My teacher showed me how to create a sort of "wash" of paint, so that underneath you could still see the wood. Or at least still see that it was wood, and it'd give it a more authentic sort of feel to it. So I basically splooshed a blob of color onto a pallet, mixed it around and, when I was happy with the shade, I took a piece of flat cardboard and just smeared the color across the wood. Which is why especially in the white/yellow one you can see lines/strokes. Obviously with the less-than-perfect camera quality, you can't really TELL that it's a wash and not normal painting.

OH WELLZ.

I know this was a long description....sorry! Let me know what y'all think!

P.S.--For the crazy person's cage: I broke a beer bottle [so much fun!!], and it was awesome enough to keep the neck and base of the bottle completely whole. So I came up with this idea to arrange the broken shards on the bottom of the cage in a way that makes it look like you just took the bottle by the neck and cracked it against something, and it's lying there, broken. It looked awesome when I tried it out...I just hope there'll be enough room in there for the person, too!