Lyrical Painting Project
To express my song, Skinny Love, I tried to portray the feeling that my attitude and confidence has changed throughout my experience of dancing. At first, Skinny Love was a sad song to listen to, and I would listen to it when I would have a hard day in my ballet class whether I didn't feel good about my body, or how I danced that night, and listening to a sad song on the way home helped me to reflect on what I wanted to do better in the next class. But as I have grown as a dancer and developed a stronger confidence surrounding my capability, listening to Skinny Love reminds me of where I have come from and how much I have grown. In my painting, I begin with dark purple and blue colors, which eventually fade into light pink and yellow, demonstrating how I have gone from a negative to a positive place.
The process of layering paints was first having red paint line the bottom, with light colors up above. But this wasn't getting the message that I wanted across. I then experimented with white washes over what I had to try to blend it all in more, but it still wasn't what I was looking for. I first experimented with swatches of blue and yellow all over the painting, and then saw that I could still incorporate the dark to light color idea into my painting while still having it be overall "pretty."
From the beginning, it was a painting with a yellow column on one side, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom that all had paint dripping down the canvas. My final was a top-to-bottom dark to light color scheme that all blended in with each other with white and purple letters integrated into it. When people look at my painting, I want them to think about a time that they grew from a negative place into a positive place, and be proud of how they grew from it.
The process of layering paints was first having red paint line the bottom, with light colors up above. But this wasn't getting the message that I wanted across. I then experimented with white washes over what I had to try to blend it all in more, but it still wasn't what I was looking for. I first experimented with swatches of blue and yellow all over the painting, and then saw that I could still incorporate the dark to light color idea into my painting while still having it be overall "pretty."
From the beginning, it was a painting with a yellow column on one side, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom that all had paint dripping down the canvas. My final was a top-to-bottom dark to light color scheme that all blended in with each other with white and purple letters integrated into it. When people look at my painting, I want them to think about a time that they grew from a negative place into a positive place, and be proud of how they grew from it.