Here's a bunch of detail photos and notes about my new piece,
Stream of Consciousness. This one is another example of a piece where I made it up as I went along, not really sure if it would become a "real" piece of art, or just practice...
I initially painted the background with a palette knife, mixing the blue and white on the canvas to establish an expressionistic field of color. Sometimes I cover canvases with excess paint from another painting and set it to the side, just so when I get to it, I will not be intimidated by a blank canvas. Here,
I took this one and just started drawing a girl with an afro, which I am pretty good at by now, so I thought I had something. The hard thing about working without a plan though, is that I don't know when I'm finished. I wasn't...
So I kept going. Then it occurred to me to I could make this one of those daydream drawings, and to embrace the spontaneity of it.
Then I turned a corner, using the thought balloon as a device to tie it together and injecting anything I could think of into it.
I decided I would limit the color, because I felt like it could easily get out of control. So I spotted red around a little bit. Unfortunately, the afro lady was dominating the piece a little too much,
so I went into it with some white to allow me to draw more randomness into that space...
Yeah,
this is my first attempt at drawing President Trump in a gallery piece. I'm pretty happy with it. I went against my first intent with the color and added some blue so I could detail the Russian flag overlapping the American flag behind Trump. Again, I leaned on my comics background using a speech balloon to showcase abstractions of some of the concerns about the new President.
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| Stream of Consciousness by Samax Amen 20x16 Acrylic and India ink on canvas |
So I eventually felt comfortable calling this one done.
Stream of Consciousness will make its public debut at
DECADE: ArtLoveMagic's 10th Anniversary Celebration this Saturday, but you can purchase the original piece or a print right now. Just click the yellow Add to Cart button below. Let me know if you have any questions!
Peace,
-Samax
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