Abstraction in My Painting

Last semester, we kept a large Visual Diary for sketching ideas and improve creativity through each 2 works per week. My first work was thought to be in abstraction style and yes, I did want some elements like that in my painting. I didn't have much skill in mixturing colours to create the effect or emotion and yet the ability to sketch details well, so ... abstraction is my solution.

I just it them along with my very fresh feeling about what had just happened. The first picture was named Cold Sun. Sitting on the bus and feel the air go through the window is my favourite time each day going to school. That morning was pretty glommy and I could only see the shape of the sun, little and weak shining. It inspired me to draw "Cold Sun".

The swirl occured in many of my paintings and were made by many colours rather than single ones. If there are many swirls, they would also be drawn with multicolours. That's my purpose to show the overlap between 2 mixed up feelings which is my trend, my desire to show hard-to-say things I've been impressed; in this case, they are "hot" and "cold" at the same time.

Relating a little bit to my previous post, I metioned about Minimalism, how strange ... the day after that my lecturer talked about Maximalism in our too long current fashion trend. did I have that style in this work? He said the spiral came from the very soon form of nature, from a big one such as a shape of the Galaxy to the smallest one: the snail. I found it interesting, happy to already have this shape in my painting.

However, I think there is a repetition in my work. I have to admit that I'm partially influenced by someone's work in this style, I found the shape quite familiar in some way after having done it. Though I was taught there is actually repetition and simulation in Art but I will try to develop this trend in a more dynamic and effective way in the future.