Abstract

Start Date: May 3, 2012 Finish Date: May 4, 2012

I found this drawing to be especially difficult to create. I was instructed to create an abstract drawing that portrays something that's been on my mind. I've never enjoyed abstract drawings because they don't make sense to me, however my teacher always seems to like the drawings that I don't like, so creating this was in my best interest. I started out thinking about how in a little over a year I'll be headed to college, and how it was really scary that for the last eighteen years I had my parents hands holding me and guiding me toward the right decisions. I originally had a hand reaching out with a square teetering on the edge into the great 'unknown' future ahead of me. Unfortunately, a hand is an object and I couldn't use it in my piece and still have the picture be abstract. I tried to create the hand shape and had jagged edges around the top where the square had broken out. Then, I colored the background with black and blue and used Mineral Spirits to blend them together. This drawing was hard to do because there wasn't a clear object that I was creating and so it looked unattractive in my mind.