Psychedelic Mushroom, Abandoned
Original Photo
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Original Photo
Psychedelic Mushrooms, Oil on Canvas
Fractal artwork created using the Julia set
A swirling psychedelic pattern
Fractal artwork created using the Julia set
Apart from doing apparently realistic artwork, I start researching Karen Kilimnik. I want to start trying monochrome painitng as shown in the second painting, Psychedelic Mushrooms, and experience how paint can do in terms of a medium.
For the background, it is the landscape in Highgate Wood. I chose navy as the colour scheme. It is a gloomy misty night. The painting wants to depict to depict the insidious scene in the forest. I have challenged myself and my practice to use only one colour scheme to create the painting. I converted the original photo into black and white and added a dark blue tint to it. It became very difficult to distinguish the distance between each tree, elements in the forest for creating a natural depth of view. I tried but it didn't reach my expectation. I chose the blue, French Ultramarine, because it created the weirdest light. And blue symbols cold and sad feelings, so I want to add it to the atmosphere.
More, to change my painting style, I took reference from Karen Kilimnik.
Karen Kilimnik is an American painter and installation artist. She resides in her town of Philadelphia, a setting that frees her from the necessity of social maneuvering, which has become a ritual obligation for the New York creative community. She did work of paintings and installation.
Series of her blue paintings that I took as inspiration and reference for this painting.
Psychedelic Art is any art or visual displays inspired by psychedelic experiences and hallucinations. The word "psychedelic" ( coined by British psychologist Humphry Osmond ) means "mind manifesting".
This work is painted with mushrooms, which is a continuation of my work in Unit 1, Wonderland. I choose mushroom because it symbolizes good luck, it is addicted seeing it. It is associated with nature and the beauty of the forest. Finding mushroom is considered to be very lucky and mean good fortune is at hand. In regards to my essay, mushroom is a resemblance to the forbidden fruit Adam and Eve consumed in the Garden of Eden. Many mushrooms species produce secondary metabolites that can be toxic, mind-altering, antibiotic, antiviral, or bioluminescent. Same in the story of Alice in Wonderland, when the Caterpillar asked Alice to taste the mushroom, it is the action of distracting mind, producing intensification of thoughts and feelings, where I got my inspiration from.
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