In today's episode I am painting 'Gaia'
Hello and welcome to another episode of 'The
JENuine ARTicle' with your host Jen, as I
take you through the process of one of my
paintings.
In this week's episode, I am painting 'Gaia',
a Greek goddess representing the creator of
the earth and the universe.
What an inspirational figure, who wouldn't
want to paint her!
So with further adieu, let's get into it.
Now while you guys are watching, I just wanted
to describe a little about my inspiration
behind this piece, and also a little bit about
the techniques used.
I recently watched a documentary on YouTube
called 'Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds' which
talks about an invisible vibratory force or
energy that exists throughout the universe,
and connects all things.
This is a common concept which is at the root
of all religion, and is called many different
things, such as the 'Logos' 'Omm' 'Akasha'
and has even been found in science as Higgs
Field or Higgs Boson.
After watching this documentary, I really
wanted to try and paint this idea that everything
is connected, and when looking for inspiration
I came across the Greek goddess Gaia which
I thought fit perfectly with this concept.
Now my painting ended up being quite a lot
different from my initial design, I ended
up changing the background which you will
see in a minute, to be a starry night sky
as I though that this fits better with the
idea of the universe and the earth all being
connected.
I painting background using a wet into wet
technique, and then used a spray bottle to
spritz into the paint while it is still wet,
which gives it a sort of watery flowy look.
And then to create the stars, I splattered
white acrylic paint.
The most challenging part of this peice, was
definetely creating the green glow around
the earth. I struggled for ages with this
and did many layers, some of which I didn't
record.
But what I ended up doing was putting some
of the green glow colour on the highlights
of the skin - so on the palms of the hand,
some of the highlights around the face. But
around the earth, I ended up making it a wee
bit too dark so I had to go in with a white
acrylic wash to lighten up the area to make
it look a bit more like it was glowing.
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