🎨 ART by @andrijana / Reflections of the Flow

Reflections of the Flow, 2018
acrylic, oil, oil pastel on canvas,
70 cm X 50 cm

This painting was a really long journey. Now I can finally say it's over.

At first glance it looks fresh and only an experienced eye would know that underneath there are several layers, but probably it would not have guessed how much. And maybe you might wonder why? Why destroy, repaint so many paintings on one and the same canvas?

I do not always work this long in one painting, but there is always the one that I'm painting and repainting a month or two. It turns to the true research. Like I've got to find something, to walk every corner of myself. Immerse, sail into, float away, bury myself, as a mole go through the whole land, get up, fly away and embrangle unexpectedly than to unravel webs around ... until I finally find what I've come across.

There is no fear, it must not be when it comes to art, I'm never sorry to repaint some work. There are infinite many images in me, they are the reflection of the constant flow that lives in me.

Finally, what I have achieved is not exactly what I want to express because it is never like that, it is always only close to it, but I was surprised by the tenderness I had found. Again I found it in the painting, as if to remind me of the always existing womaness that lives in me. Brightness as if calling sincerity, primarily towards ourselves, the honesty that is necessary to learn something, to be able to grow at all. The world is full of fake, pretense, ones that are convinced to be something that is so far from their true core. Honesty is painful, the ego does not like it, but honesty can lead us to acceptance and it is the only thing that can lead us to path of true happiness.

The color that prevails with this canvas in the end is not white, it is a lavender light. The blue color corresponds to the orange and the red one to the green, but freshness, except light colors, is achieved trough the yellow and salmon color together with light turquoise-blue and yellow-green.

Lightness is what I was looking for, which I finally achieved and now I can say that I'm finished with this canvas.

The first part of the process is here, and further research follows the post below.

Enjoy!

The continuation of the process: