This quarter...

...I want to further explore the theme I started in painting in the spring.  My last painting of the spring quarter was of a decomposing car, with vines and leaves surrounding and beginning to penetrate the remnants of the structure. 

The car.

I used bright colors that gave both the car and the foliage a vivacious quality.  For this quarter I plan to continue using the theme of the foliage, but instead pair it with other objects, like sugar skulls.  I began drawing sugar skulls this summer, and I believe I’m attracted to them because they are dead objects that are given new life with designs and color.  I hope to create at least two paintings with this theme, my first one large (22"x36" I believe,) and the other smaller (less than 18x24”.)

My first painting is going to be of a sugar skull on a window ledge, with vines that start growing up the wall normal-colored, but change into bright colors as they grow over and through the skull.  The background (window and bricks,) are sketched out, but I'll post pictures when I'm further along.