Current music:	Yellow Magic Orchestra - Tong Poo
Entry tags:	artwork, painting, school

The semester's over!

I should've said this a week ago, but I'm done this semester! \(^o^)/ No exams to worry about either, which is always a big plus (fine arts courses are awesome that way ^^). The picture above is one of the paintings I did this term. I diverged away from landscapes and concentrated my efforts on this sort of "abstract, but not abstract" mode of painting using certain surrealistic techniques.

It was really interesting reading up on the various techniques the surrealists employed to generate new imagery. One was taking a brush loaded with ink and blowing onto a piece of paper and discern what the "image" is. The one that I used was related to ink blotting, but instead of ink I used acrylic paint. With one blot, I extracted five or so paintings from it, heheh. :) There was probably more, but time constraints but a stopper on that. There's always the rest of spring and summer to paint them though. ;)

I'll make a post with all the paintings I did and photos of the studio sometime soon.