Exploding Horizon

 

I took Julie Mehretu’s works as references. Her works are often full of lines and shapes, give me a sense of order in chaos and rationality in madness, and I like them very much.

I used pencil to draw the draft first, then redrew the draft with neutral pens and ballpoint pens, then colored it with marker and color pencils. I added a lot of patterns by my feelings.

Julie Mehretu’s Works

 

Construction of a City – Observational Drawing in Two-Point Perspective

 

One of my friends live in an apartment near to Time Square, and her bedroom has large windows on both sides. The view of her bedroom is magnificent, so I decided to draw in her room.

Final – To See Through

 

 

For the final piece, I decided to try something different. I searched a lots of artworks, and finally decided to take two artists’ works as references, One is Julie Mehretu, and the other one is Etienne Gélinas.

“Space and architecture are central concepts of my approach. Space presents itself abstractly through a detachment of the plans, an overlap of delineated areas, and assemblies of multipoint perspectives which dig into the surface of the painting to give it a sense of depth.”

——- Etienne Gélinas

Etienne Gélinas’s Works

This is my favorite one. I really like the red color in the background, because the shapes and drawings in the front are like grey and light colors, so the red color makes the whole picture attractive. This is the reason that I decided to use a bright fluorescent pink for the background of my work.

 

I also take some other paintings as references. I decided to take a small part of each work as a reference.

I decided to take the sense of fading and melting of the colors from these drawings.

 

I like the presentation of the colorful lines in these two Julie Mehretu’s works.

I used acrylic, color pencils, markers, ballpoint pens and neutral pens, watercolor to create my work. I used collage to combine the background with the buildings I drew.

 

Sketchbook