Since my last post I have
been thinking about incorporating text into my work on the heart. I started off
doing quick watercolour paintings of the heart from memory and I wondered if I
could paint the heart using the word heart itself, shown in the top photo. I
painted different words in the shape of a heart but I found that the word heart
worked best as the outside shape looked most like that of a heart and I liked
how the diagonal part of the letter ‘A’ looked like the coronary blood vessels
that go across the heart. I decided to develop this in my next piece by
painting a hand around the heart with a contrasting green background, shown in
the second photo. I then thought about adding writing that is more meaningful,
and so I thought about how the image of the heart typically represents love. I
sewed the word love over work on the heart, such as the piece shown in the
third photo, which I also used drawing ink and watercolour paint for. I then
thought back to the dissected hearts and how this image could represent the heart
being broken, which inspired me to do the piece shown in the final photo. I kept the art fairly simple to emphasize the writing.
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