Motions

I feel like some of the best art is unplanned. Its often created as a side project and ends up reflecting who you are better than anything else.

Don’t get me wrong, my intricate artworks that required a series of planning and replanning are close to my heart too, but theres something about unplanned masterpieces that elicit a raw form of emotion. It’s unfiltered and imperfect.

In the process of creating a commissioned painting, I had extra yellow, blue and grey paint left over. I mixed them together with white gesso and sporadically created the wavy pattern in the background. It created texture whilst leaving the human mark of showing the depth of the strokes and paint instead of a two-dimensional seamless surface.

As I continued the commissioned artwork and had left over colours, I worked on Motions on the side. As I drew the face outlines with the pale yellow before planning its “filling” beforehand I grew to enjoy the thrill of spontaneity in my process. As it came together colour by colour, I really felt like it reflected my identity and thought processes more directly than the other piece. It’s called Motions to reflect the momentum of creativity, nostalgia, waves of loneliness and then some. This one’s an extension of me.

(Motions, Huney, Acrylic and Oil Pastel, 18 x 24, , 2020)