Addendum #10: Sandcastle

Phewph, I've used up all my excess paint! In addition to this one, I got through half of another Addendum before I finally ran out.

While this concept was the practical choice to use up large amounts of colors, painting it wasn't super enjoyable. Doing several Addendums in a row was getting boring and blocky squares are not my vibe. However, this does exude a certain kindergarten fun.

With that, I'm done with my fourth painting in 4 consecutive days. I have several great ideas on the docket, so I'm excited to figure out how to work on larger projects while maintaining the rest of my life (realizing now, I have not painted any major projects outside of quarantine).

Addendum #9: Cappadocia

As I said last time, I ended up doing quite a planned and high quality Addendum here, because I had so much excess paint to pick from.

I am in a very completionist headspace right now, trying to get through all this excess paint (don't know why there's so much). After the last Addendum on Saturday, I have taken 5 hours tonight (a weeknight) completing this painting and the base of a whole other one (just need to add detail). I wonder if I'll change my plans for the week and finish up the excess paint in the next couple evenings. (It will probably take me through to part of a fourth one.)

I've had this idea to paint Cappadocia for a long time, but never did it properly because it was on the cusp of being too difficult and not inspiring enough. Executing this idea as an Addendum was a good approach. My light critique of this painting is that the outlines of the baskets were an afterthought and slightly too dark, the two-toned sky is a little funky, the leftmost balloon colors is the least like the others, but the texture/depth on the mountains worked better than expected.

Yay, this was fun!

Addendum #8: Planter

This one is quite cool! It reminds me of an art style I'll have to look up the name of later -- not exactly Picasso, but color block-y.

It would have looked really interesting if the leaves had more sections of different colors. But practically speaking, I have large amounts of paint in several colors, and was trying to get through them.

I still have a whole bunch of excess paint, and hoping to get through them in the next Addendum later this weekend. I've never started an Addendum with all the paint that I have to use, so maybe I can plan something more interesting.

Apparently, this kind of plant is called a Bird of Paradise.

Pastel Detox

I have been gravitating towards expressing feelings or concepts in abstract recently, but the thinking part of my brain also finds these less satisfying to paint or to look at. It can get boring quickly if I do multiple in a row.

So this painting is a compromise of real and abstract things. Similar to the last post, I still feel that my recent paintings are lacking in creativity/newness but also feel really me -- like that they always existed and I'm just manifesting them now.

I chose to do this painting over others that I might have been more excited to start, because I'm trying to get through my rainbow ideas and clear out my current paint pots.

The concept for this painting is focus, inspired by a fun concert I attended. I have resolved to being more focused/committed and that has returned good results so far:

-Focusing helps me experience more nuance and enjoyment, represented by the colored dots in the middle vs. gray dots on the edge

-But I also can't help that my thoughts wander to think about related things, indicated by the spotlights pointed in different directions and the many dots on the periphery

Application:

-Gradient backgrounds always make it more challenging/limiting in erasing/undo/fix what's on top

-The dots feel wonky and I can't put my finger on why. I used a dotting tool, and both the sizes and placement might be off

-This is a 5x7 panel

Anyway, it's cute, yay.

"What Do You Think?"

일코하려고 했었어요.

-"Love Yourself: Answer" color scheme was actually an accident. My intent was just to paint a regular rainbow with a different starting color.

-Blue and orange panels call back to the Agust D tour, with great efforts to avoid looking like UVA colors.

-Instead of pastel dots, I could used the bold red, green, and blue of the concert colors; but didn't think of it. It might have been more unique for my portfolio, but less representative of the concept/message, which is "happy".