Heart

My latest piece is pretty interesting, and not very similar to my normal pieces. Although stylistically it is sort of the same, and I used my usual media. I cannot remember how I came up with this idea, I just sort of had it. I am actually doing my senior project about the origins of creativity in the brain and how that all works, so maybe through my research I will know more. 

This piece actually really creeps me out though. For those of you who don't know, I have a phobia of needles.   Although veins actually also really creep me out. I was fine until I started to add the intertwining blue veins. For me, that just made it too creepy and real. It looks pretty different in person, but the veins to me seriously make the heart look like its throbbing or something. Creepy. 

I started out painting the heart, mostly because the veins were pretty much the whole reason I wanted to paint this. I didn't realize it would scare me until they started to look very real to me. After I got to this point, I couldn't decide how I wanted to do the leaves. Usually when I am working on the piece I leave decisions on color until right before I plan it out, and decide based on whatever just seems to fit. Everything else I think I plan out pretty well though. A friend of mine helped me decide on white, and I really like how it turned out. She has great ideas.