the outline of the formation of various folds or wrinkles.

Over the summer, i was privileged to go on a trip to Europe, and spend a month in Italy. While I was there I was able to see, learn and experience countless peices of the most beautiful art i have ever seen. I would stand infront of these sculptures and paintings and feel so small, so humble, and so astounded at the skill these artists had.  Then as i began to learn more and more about the artists, leaders, and people who lived in these ancient lands i became inspired.  People are all connected. It is a connection that knows no distance, no limits, and no time period.  Many of the people on the other side of the world, born thousands of years before us still faced many of the same struggles and temptations that we are challenged by today. Popes still where tempted by greed, Brothers still fought, and people where still people.

With this new found knowledge and love for the human race, I had this picture in my head of these white outlined figures all stacked ontop of eachother, with a copper wash as the negative space. Then i was planning on clumping yarn over their heads, and placing dried flowers ontop of the yarn. However as i began to mix paints i accidentaly created a brownish-greenish-orange, and fell in love with the color.  I began to paint the negative space in globs of white, green, blue, orange, and copper. Once i got to the bottom of the painting however, i decided i didn't want to cover all of the background with these strong colors, in fear that it might make the peice to busy. So i began to paint as if the acrylic was melting.


  

I used watered down acrylic and mixtures of white to paint the bottom of the peice.  Then as i began to look at the figures i realized it almost looked like they were being tangled up, so i decided to spread out the yearn throughout the entire peice, not just around the figures heads.







To do this i got a Xacto nife, and cut slits around, behind, and inside my figures and weaved the yarn through the slits.  After a few hours of work i was very satisfied with how my peice turned out, however with the addition of the yarn, my figures didn't seem to stand out the way i wanted them too. So i added more detail in the clothes of my figures, and darkened them up.






However after talking to mrs Rossie and mr sands, we concluded that to make the figures really pop, i would have to re paint the background in dark dark dark colors.