This still was was inspired by the style of Rene Magritte. While he spent time painting in different styles, I chose to focus on his surrealist works. With this piece, I experimented with a few new things like using a color ground and drawing out contour lines in different colors before starting. I really think the color ground helped me with this piece because I did not have that fear of the blank white canvas staring at me and not knowing where to start. I also used the contour lines to help guide my painting. While this was really just outlining what I had already drawn on the canvas, it still served as a nice starting point. I used canvas as my support with oil paint as my medium. While I have painted plenty of times on canvas, this was my first time painting with oil on canvas. It was different at first, but I quickly got used to it. In order to mimic Magritte’s style, I used vivid colors and created “visual hick-ups” to give the viewer a sense of confusion when looking at the piece. I also incorporated portions of sky throughout the piece, a technique common to his style which caused for a more surrealist look. In addition, I fragmented objects to add to the surrealist look. While some aspects of the fragmenting are obvious at first glance, such as the skull, others such as the chair do not catch the viewers eye immediately. Overall this was a fun project and I learned a lot about the surrealist time period as well as gained some technical skills in painting that I had struggled with prior such as adding dimension to objects.
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