Studio Art
Lyrical Acrylic Project
Medium: Acrylic Paint, White Charcoal
- My song, head full of doubt by the Avott Brothers, has one line in it that I really tried to emulate in my painting: “There’s a darkness upon me that’s flooded in light”. To incorporate this into my painting, I made a night sky over a silhouette of mountains and trees, with colors of light reflecting from the sky to the water below the land. The song is about living in a black and white world, but finding ways to bring color and light into it, so I tried to create a very literal representation of that.
- I decided very early in this process that I wanted to start with lots of thin, light colors that would just give my painting dimension. As I worked through my concepts, the paint got darker but I didn’t like how the product turned out, so I covered it in thick white paint and put down my final image, starting again with the lightest colors like the sky, and ending with the reflections on the water.
- The biggest challenge for m personally throughout this project was just finding inspiration. After listening to so many songs and finally picking one, I couldn’t determine how I wanted to put it on the canvas. My first concept was to be really abstract with it and just put lots of thin washes of different colors over my canvas. When I didn’t like this, I decided to cover it with an ocean. When I didn’t like how that turned out either, I decided on my final concept, and While I had a lot of trouble creating it on the canvas like I saw it in my head, I thought that it did a much better of job of expressing what the song meant to me.
- I’m trying to evoke a little bit of chaos, but also just the idea of finding light in the darkness on a less tangible level.
Medium: Willow Charcoal, Compressed Charcoal