'Creation'

As part of a local art class I have been attending we have been looking at aboriginal art and creation. Below is a piece in an aboriginal style that represents how I see the creation story.

I painted the background pink to represent immense love and passion and had a central path into the centre of the piece to represent God and his immense love. The middle of the large circle gets darker as the path representing God reaches it to show how large and deep his love is and extends out onto the rest of the page representing the way the Lord spreads over the Earth and is present everywhere.
At the top middle I added dark lines and patches representing the night and as a result I have represented day as yellow on the top right hand side of the piece. As we go round the circle blue and green waves are introduced to represent the land and sea and the introduction of people.
I am really really proud of this piece, I tend to use lots of smooth lines and blended colours when working with paint which has become my signature style.


On Wednesday I attended the art class again and created this piece...

The theme was creation again but I decided to take a different route with this piece. I started blending dark browns on my pallet and made the circle of paint in the bottom right hand corner extending it with a wavy line, not sure where to go next I started using the browns and reds to make more spirals and gradually my creation took form.
As I progressed with the piece I decided that it would represent a fiery volcano, the beautiful oranges and earthy tones creating spirals of smoke and new creation but also bringing destruction to existing environments.
Someone mentioned that it is a tranquil piece in the way there are spirals yet the colours are very angry, they were quite about that and guessed my mood that morning ...I had expressed it without realising! I can get very angry inside but I become very controlled in regards to my expression of emotion, just like I controlled the shapes and patterns in this piece.


Last night when I got in I created this piece of work on a canvas I bought in town, with some really cheap oil pains, I really enjoyed playing with the colours as I don't tend to use blue and green tones.

I used a hair pin to write the words using lots of dots to make up each letter and extended the dots to add connecting spirals. I decided to add words of encouragement (Hope, Freedom, Joy, Peace) so that I can look at the canvas and feel positive. I like the way that the shapes open out almost creating a blooming flower of petals and shapes.