Drawing and Imaging – Storytime Dreamscape

My process through this project started with my inspiration of Bryant D Giles. Eventually, I got very inspired by butterflies, which inspired the rest of my project to be inspired by the butterfly effect. The Butterfly Effect is that a flap of a butterfly’s wings can start a typhoon. Butterflies are an important symbol to me – I hated them as a kid but I love them now. I derived 3 gradients from the colors in my inspiration page, each showing a different color scheme with different patterns of a butterfly incorporated in to the design. I thought I was going to use the bigger version that was blue, pink, and orange, but I decided to go with the polychromatic color scheme because that’s how I view butterflies more and it unified my design. My final piece was a collaboration of colors, layers, and textures. The background is my gradient. The first few layers of white lines are traces of different waves. The bigger texture that takes up the whole composition is traced from a typhoon, with the phrase ‘butterfly effect’ hidden in the bottom middle/right. The more intense, jittery pattern is another smaller tracing of a wave. The black butterflies contrast the white lines, and the diamond in the center shows the transition of butterfly to wave using colors from the polychromatic color scheme. I offset the image on the canvas to give the piece more movement and unity, but also to show how the bad memories I have of butterflies were from innocence as a child.