Description
This work was the result of creating work around the theme of ‘Lock’, from which I created my own prompt, ‘Embrace’. I painted a series of pieces experimenting with this, depicting human figures embracing themselves. I experimented with painting various positions and perspectives to help form ideas. My vision for this final piece was to evoke emotions of peace in loneliness, and a tranquil, dream-like, but vulnerable atmosphere within the painting – hence the softening of colours and avoidance of harsh lines around the subject. My inspiration for this piece came from wanting to portray a feeling of vulnerability that comes from embracing oneself. I used a monochromatic blue colour scheme across many of my pieces leading up to this, and progressed into using multiple colours in one composition, however still keeping in line with the melancholy and calm mood -??reinforced with the use of cool tones in the majority of them. In this painting, I kept to the same idea using a cooler tone of purple in the majority of the background.?