Artist Statement

I created this work because I felt that it would be interesting to create a picture using only 3 colors. It was also cool to see how 3 colors could mix into many more. My overall work is disappointing. I think it came out a sloppy mess and that the viewer of my painting won’t be able to see my vision. I was hoping to achieve a more uniformed look, but instead it looks thrown together.

I would hope that my viewer could see something in the painting that I can’t. The lighter parts of the portion are supposed to represent the good sides of the butterfly and the dark parts are supposed to represent the bad parts that the butterfly has to overcome in order to get to the better parts of his life. My current work doesn’t relate to my previous work. I think that each pieces of my art are different and doesn’t reflect off of each other.

My painting doesn’t fit in with contemporary art because it wasn’t meant to be put in that category of art. The process I worked was first I did a grid of colors and mixed blue with blue, red, and white. Then I mixed white with white, blue, and red. Then I mixed red with red, blue, and white. In some parts of my painting the colors mixed more bluntly than in other parts it clashed better into a new color. My art reflects the world I live in because in the center, the butterfly is bright, but all around it is not so bright, so it’s like the environment you live in doesn’t affect who you are.

My art would make an impact on the world because it would make people realize that they are not the people who are around them. One of the certain techniques that was essential to the piece was the dotting I did around the butterfly. A new technique I experienced with was mixing paint to form something different and use them together on a painting to make sense.