Adonis
“UNFAIR”
2013.12.2 ACRYLIC PAINTING ON CANVAS

Before we started to do this assignment, we learnt some basic techniques about acrylic painting like tint and shade, impasto, scraffito, solatter, knife painting, wash, dry brush and stippling. After that, I wrote down a brief brainstorm, then, I made a design for techniques, colors and lines I would chose. First of all, I covered the background with dark blue and light blue and the big brush were used for blending colors. Secondly, I added some different colors on my background to make a strong contrast and balance all parts of background. In this step, little brush was used and I used dry brush. Moreover, when I finished to draw the background, I covered background with knife paintings. In knife paintings, I used mixture of colors made all parts of the painting nice and symmetric and impasto was used. The core of my artwork can be read as having a fair world. As we all know that we can get the information from the Internet, news report or TV with the exposure of the information era and that is almost the only way we can get the information. Therefore, there is no doubt that nowadays the media can control everything. We even do not know what we get is true or not. The media sometimes show us some information on purpose, and hence it is really difficult for us to know what really happened in the world. That is the reason why I feel unfair. In using colors, I used dark blue as my background and bright blue was used for blending colors. Then, I added some bright colors on what I had drawn. What I did on the background is to show a colorful and complicated world. On the bark of canvas, I used knife paintings covered two parts. One part covered with knife painting was bigger than another one reflected unfair treatment and various colors were used for knife painting. In this abstract painting, I tried to use different techniques to reflect my ideas and opinions and make them more realistic that the viewers can easily imagine and think what I want to express.
What I like the most about my artwork are two parts covered with knife paintings. You can see the strong contrast between the bright part and dark background. It looks symmetric and I balanced all the parts of my painting well. However, I did not draw many details although my artwork looks brief and clear, which was a dissatisfied part. What is more, I used blue as my major color on the background and added other colors, but I could not combine those colors well. In the beginning, when I finished to draw the background, I felt complicated for colors and techniques I would choose or use for the emphasis, but with the help of nice suggestions given by dear teacher, I finally finished my artwork and I thought it was quite good now.