Current Project

Due on the 19th.

 

Topic?

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Community.

Yeah. Let me share with you some of my thought processes:

Layer one: plain white, using palette knife, going on chunky. "I want texture, and this is the best way to get it. Maybe I'll see something in the texture as I go, and that will give me a starting point." (This didn't happen.)

Layer two: "I don't know what to do, so I'm just gonna put some black on a palette knife and do a blob and see if it looks like anything. *Does it and is surprised when it looks like a blob* oh dear. It looks like a blob. What do I think of when I think of community? LGBT community. Art community. Let's do the colors of the rainbow in the shape of a paint palette! *Does this. Hates it.* I'm just gonna cover it in black."

Layer three: "I don't feel like I'm really part of the LGBT community because I'm bi, so black is rather appropriate to cover this up. I often feel judged by both the LGBT and straight communities, so it's like I don't fit anywhere. So much for community..."

Layer three: *staring at my piece so far, hating it, hyperfocusing on the red showing through the black* Red is my power color. Maybe I can do red then cover that up with black and have just it show through like I did here? *Starts painting all in red* hmmm... I'm liking this just plain red! There is power in community? Community covers the darkness of loneliness? I dunno. Not done. Not perfect. Won't be perfect. But I like it better now than I did."

Speaks a lot louder, for sure.