Gymnopedie

This painting was based on music that I played on the piano about a year ago, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atejQh9cXWI , here's the link to the music if you want to listen to it. I know that most teenagers aren't into classical music, but just listen to it and see if you get a similar image in your head. I got the image of someone walking in autumn in the gray rainy streets, slowly talking steps in time with the rhythm. The wind blowing their hair back...
The puddle is extremely colorful and may remind you of another painting that I previously wrote about. I wanted to show rain in a positive and happy way. My art teacher pointed out that a diagonal composition of the puddle on the page creates a sense of moving forward, which was a helpful tip for doing some of my other paintings also. This is currently my favorite painting. I did it either in the beginning of 2012 or end of 2011, so it's pretty recent.

Mannequins

I haven't posted anything in a while, main reason being I was fighting a battle against a biology test. Now I'm back and decided to talk about something that is near and dear to me, which would be these mannequins. Why do I like them so much? They are really fun to draw and are really good practice drawing human figures. If you've never seen these before you should probably get in your car right now and drive to the nearest art store and get one. I had an idea of getting several and suspending them off my ceiling (because my room isn't weird enough as is), but I didn't get to it yet, maybe a project for another day. <3

Style

I takes a while for an artist to figure out what their style is. Often times I look back through my drawings (and I have a lot) and find similar things that show up. I often put bricks in my paintings, I use wooden mannequins a lot, and I tend to use bright colors or no color at all. I have a big imagination and the idea of a city or world different from ours intrigues me. These paintings I did a while ago, but they convey an earlier style I had and present an interesting idea. One of the paintings was meant to be a world of wooden mannequins (that you can get at any art store) and the other is a world of invisible people. I sometimes look at the people in the drawings an try to figure out what characteristics I was trying to convey through something other that their face, because they have none. :)