HEY THIS IS JUN

Media: acrylic paint, painting board, maybe also oil pastels and color pencils Principles: light, symmetry, texture Process: for this piece, rather than focusing on the special perspective and structure, I choose to zoom in and to have a more precise view. In this painting, my character will be standing in front of her family picture. In the picture, some people will have normal faces while the others’ faces will be blurred, because in my culture, people believe that only the ones who are dead on earth can show their faces clearly in living people’s dreams. Through this painting, I want to explore how culture and beliefs can create the sense of horror in a special way and adding it directly into viewers’ mind instead of only delivering through the perspective and scene itself.

Warning: this is an unfinished piece :(  Process: First of all, I changed my outline from the original idea. Instead of the background of a regular kitchen, I decided to paint it all black and having a red table cloth falling down from the ceiling. On one hand, the table cloth falling down creates connection with my first piece where the light stream comes down. On the other hand, the irregularities can conduct to a stronger sense of unsettling. However, I started the painting with the table taking up majority of the space, but then I realized halfway that the perspective was off and I had to cover all my work to restart. After adjusting my composition and perspective, I decided to make all the chairs red, too. And my character sits on one end of the long table. Media: still acrylic, but comparing to the previous one, I made the acrylic paint thicker on this canvas so it can create a texture better.  Principle/element: I chose to paint the table cloth red so it may pop out fro...