Yeomyeong (Kay)
Curatorial Rationale
My first piece is Poseidon. I wanted to express water as well with water color painting and I stroke Medusa’s hair which composed with snakes. This idea helped me to think creatively without a bias that hair should be just a far. Due to this is water color painting and Poseidon is the goodness of see. I thought hair that composed with water makes his unrealistic goodness atmosphere more outstanding. In addition, this was a great challenge for me because I did not familiar with water color painting yet. Therefore, this pieces became an awesome opportunity that I could progress and improve my water color painting skill.
Second one is Nyx who is the goodness of night. I got more confidence of water color painting from my first piece. Therefore, I wanted to identify my improved painting skill. Night sky is also painted was various colors as purple dark blue, black, and all of them cause dreamy mood simultaneously. Due to night sky is dark and it is not suitable paint transparently as the first piece. This is the reason why second piece have deeper color than the first one. However, this seems little simple to express ‘unrealistic goodness atmosphere’, and I scattered white paint as stars. It was successful to evoke that atmosphere and more connection with night. Moreover, I could to use another painting skill, not just brushing commonly.
Third one is Flora who is the goodness of flower. Oil paint looks heavy and this is prober material to express severe mood of goodness. In addition, I outlined fresh composition and angle that I have never tried before. The reason why is I wanted to draw flower patter on her skin as my first piece. Due to this, make up on her face is more splendid to balance and express gorgeous goodness of flower. However, her skin was painted with pale color, and other splendid colors make it more pale contrastively. Thus, I could learn and study color combination and balance with different tone and Chroma colors.
For Artemis & Orion, I imagined Artemis to see blue moon and some constellation relating to her is Orion. Artemis is goddess of the moon and her color generally expressed blue in many mythology books that I have read before. Due to I have ever not try to use Photoshop and it was a great experience and opportunity to extend my skills. Another Photoshop piece, Hercules, do not have any cloud as Artemis & Orion picture. Therefore, I wanted to show my various Photoshop skills as color correction to express mythology’s characteristic unique atmosphere.