In the beggining of this project, I thougjt it would be a good idea to continue my new journey i have been working on with mixing ballpoint and paint. I like to show emotion through my paintings. I thought okay yeah but how can i show emotions? I hate doing obvious scenes in drawings and paintings. But if i do one, i need to show extra emotion something that is bursting from the image or should i say character in the art. The first class was really hard for me because i didnt know how i would execute my work. I thought of doing circular frames around the drawings because i wanted to seem as if the characters in the art were in their own world; their own dream. I took to instragram for some inspiration and did my first drawing with the couple in a circle based of an inspiration photo. I stylized it to my own liking. I like to do backgrounds with patterns which i did. the red swirls in petals seemed gentle which is why i added it to a passionate scene. The second drawing I did is based off one drawing i did in the sketchbook project we did, but i wanted to improve on and stylize it even more. I played around with my paintbrush and took the end of the brush and made lines going through the face which i really liked and thought added an effect. The theme was sadness to that drawing. I wanted to tie these two drawings together and make a bigger piece which I did. Throghout the whole project i stuck to two colors; blue and red. They were originally the ballpoint colors i chose to work with. As i was doing each piece, evolved to using more pen to zero pen and fully experimenting with paint. I had fun with the project all though it was hard. I gained more experience and saw what i like and dislike painting with pen. I have never written on any art I have done and thought it would be a good way to experiment with putting it into this project since my project was about experimentation with pen and paint. Im glad i did it because it also gave an effect. I chose to do the saying “is this real” in my language Georgian to make it more personal. I also thought for some reason didnt think it would be as effective if i wrote it in english because than everyone would understand but i think there is some kind of mystery that adds onto the drawing if it has a foreign language almosf no one knows about. As i was sketching during the process of this project, I was completely blank for a few hours in class. Its hard for me to concentrate around people. I always need to be alone and close my eyes to think lf what to draw. sometimes when i rub my eyes and the colors that randomly pop up when i do give me inspiration. As soon as I went home, and was alone i immedeadly thought of many ideas. I didnt even pre sketch at home, I just dived to it. In class, I came up with a few sketches that i thought would help me. I defenitly like to tell stories with my pieces and have been focusing on trying to do that in class this semester; i have been trying to show what we feel onto displaying it into the exterior bodies. I will keep trying to develop on how to show emotion with paint in class. It is a big interest I took upon and will continue to teach myself new methods and new brushtroke techniques to improve on my work. I am excited to see what and how i will come up with future drawings and paintings. Painting is defenitly an interest i took upon this semester and will keep continue to study. I am comfortable with working with pen and am trying to push my comfort zone by using paint.
