I do not see myself as a good drawer, or anything that comes with a marker, paintbrush, etc, but I was very excited to challenge myself with this assignment. From the get-go, I knew that I wanted to do something abstract. I was thinking about how I was going to make sure that my message would come across.
My childhood memories are like a big blob to me, due to the loss of my mother and the aftermath. I still look back on my childhood with a smile, but I find it hard to remember it very vividly. That is why I chose of doing something abstract. I was visiting Søstrene Grene to buy some yarn. When I was there, I saw some cheap acrylic paint and a nice canvas. That's when I decided to use paint to describe my memory. When back home, I played around with the paint. Deciding that the best way to approach this is to make the center filled with lots of nice colors and as the circle widens, the colors become more dull and mixed. The vivid colors refer to my fond childhood memories while the mixed, dull colors refer to the struggle to still remember them. I also remembered that I kept the dried flowers from my childhood photo and decided to use them on my painting, to refer to that work.
While taking pictures of my painting, I decided to take them in the garden. My mom used to love our garden, so that made sense to me. I wanted to do some minimal changes in photoshop, like making the colors a bit brighter. I couldn't help myself to go a bit further than to only brighten them and I enhanced them in a way for them to pop more.
I love what I made and it's actually a much more emotional work than I expected it to become.