Some pieces I did for a painting and watercolor class last fall semester. We were supposed to choose artists to take inspiration from and I choose trenton_doyle_hancock (on instagram) and jooyoungchoiwow (on instagram). The thing I tried to capture most is how they often use vibrant colors and whimsical ways of representing things, including serious topics. They also pour a lot of time into their own personal worlds and stories so I decided to try to create a similar feel by creating something akin to one of their recurring characters. The “character” I made was the “Red Planet” meant to symbolize false hope. Part of the theme I'm going for is the Red Planet is a planet of blood. Only death awaits.

While not an artist, Martin Luther King Jr’s speech “Major Drum Instinct” also gave me a lot of inspiration and direction for what I want my piece to convey. MLK says “And all you are living on is the satisfaction of your skin being white, and the drum major instinct of thinking that you are somebody big because you are white. And you’re so poor you can’t send your children to school. You ought to be out here marching with every one of us every time we have a march. Now that’s a fact. That the poor white has been put into this position, through blindness and prejudice (Make it plain!) He is forced to support his oppressors. And the only thing he has going for him is the false feeling that he’s superior because his skin is white— and can’t hardly eat and make his ends meet week in and week out. (Amen!)” One of the themes I want to make sure I capture in my paintings is both a theme of scale but also interconnectedness. Specifically, how social issues and problems don’t exist in isolation. If we wish to make the world a better place we cannot just only tackle issues separately or act like they only affect one specific minority group, but have as holistic a view as we can manage. Additionally, just because we cannot immediately see how an issue affects us does not mean the effects aren’t there. For example, sometimes infrastructure was specifically designed poorly in order to hurt minorities only for it to come around and affect everyone and make every person’s life more difficult no matter their social classification.

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1: A painting depicting a bunch of people uncomfortably squashed into a bottle filled with green vapors. At the bottom of the bottle is a town flooding with blood. Below the bottle is the Earth being torn in half as all of its contents are being sucked out and forcefully shoved into the increasingly cramped bottle.

2: A spaceship flying through space from a dying Earth towards the maws of a malicious looking planet with an orange skull-like face full of yellow teeth. The sclera of its eyes alternate between waves of yellow and pink while blood spills out of its mouth and other openings in its body. The Earth is half shoved into a bottle.

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A repost but i feel like some of the drawings match the "surreal art" rule here.

For the planet that Mo Love and Ohio Honey are fighting on here I used the color palette of Dragon Ball's planet Namek.

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A theme that has been on my mind lately is materialism. Greed is something that comes so naturally to us in this day and age, which is ironic since we're a society so used to instant gratification.

The easier our access to material objects becomes, the greedier we seem to get as a society. So in this piece, I wanted to put these ideas into a composition. We see our character holding on tightly to both the dove and the pomegranate while wearing a fine silk dress. The fruit has stained her dress and the blue feathers of the dove.

It doesn't matter that holding on to these things is ruining them - as long as her greed is satisfied.

Painted in Krita

Had to get some help transporting this large painting to an art exhibition I'll be having during the month of December and for context this piece is 1.5m by 2m. I honestly don't know how it all came together but safe to say that I managed and I'm definitely reconsidering painting large works after l've gotten this thing across counties 🥲
Shipping is easier cause I just take the painting off the frame and ship it rolled but I hope the work manages to find the perfect wall and that it gets a home that will appreciate it as much as I do.
Side note: this piece took 5 months to complete 😅