Blown Away

Blow Me Away
Acrylic on Stonehenge
14" x 11"

This was the first interpretive project of the new semester. I forgot to post it because it got stuffed to the back of my locker. We were to illustrate a linguistic expression. I chose, "that blew me away". I wanted to do two things with this project. First of all I wanted to get across a more whimsical/feminine feel. I didn't want to use conventional elements of "blowing up", like grenades, explosions or any sort of pyrotechnics. Consensus during the critique was that it was more of a "drifting away" than "blown away". I can understand that. This leads to the next goal I wanted to accomplish. I have been using many different types of papers to draw and paint on. I am trying to paint/draw each piece with the quality to be hung in a gallery. Most of my work is manipulated on the computer after the initial painting; however, I find a raw beauty to a half finished piece of artwork. This was a difficult project. I am not the greatest conceptual thinker.