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Here's my first oil painting of the school year. It's kinda dramatic and desolate, but I'm quite fond of it. This piece will go into my AP art portfolio, and will be a part of my Concentration section, where my theme is suicide, roughly. My little friend Sophia asked me an interesting question when she looked at this piece, I was explaining to her about my portfolio. This piece makes suicide look like a good thing, it is more beautiful and uplifting than it is dark and depressing. I'm the kind of person that has that attitude. While yes, suicide can be a very bad thing, it represents a form of total self-control, you can free yourself, and that is something that not everyone possesses. While it is one thing to drive yourself off the edge, perhaps the even greater beauty is to take yourself to the edge and make the decision to not fall off. There is this unuttered drama to it all, and that's what I felt. So think what you like.

Pardon the bad picture, I know how to take pictures of artwork, but I don't have a manual camera!! I funkyied around with it in photoshop and cropped it up so it looked clean. And like many who have already seen this piece, they tell me that she is going to smack into the other cliff when she falls off. Well, if she jumps off, is she not going to smack into some cliff or some rock when she is falling into oblivion? Why not spare her the thrill and have her die a little sooner? Lol. I tried using glazes, which explains why it is so shining, I used lots of oil, to make it seem like the left side was farther away. My dad says she looks like me...but isn't it typical to portray yourself in your work? I didn't mean to, and I don't think it is me visually, but I'm there emotionally.

As for the white cloth, it is purity, one of my favorite themes. She falls because she is letting go of her purity. I know we all take those kind of falls in life, purity is a hard thing to let go of, I know it was and is still hard for me. May that be a little thought.

"I knew you'd be the end of me." --Reiyeka

Description
Here's my first oil painting of the school year. It's kinda dramatic and desolate, but I'm quite fond of it. This piece will go into my AP art portfolio, and will be a part of my Concentration section, where my theme is suicide, roughly. My little friend Sophia asked me an interesting question when she looked at this piece, I was explaining to her about my portfolio. This piece makes suicide look like a good thing, it is more beautiful and uplifting than it is dark and depressing. I'm the kind of person that has that attitude. While yes, suicide can be a very bad thing, it represents a form of total self-control, you can free yourself, and that is something that not everyone possesses. While it is one thing to drive yourself off the edge, perhaps the even greater beauty is to take yourself to the edge and make the decision to not fall off. There is this unuttered drama to it all, and that's what I felt. So think what you like.

Pardon the bad picture, I know how to take pictures of artwork, but I don't have a manual camera!! I funkyied around with it in photoshop and cropped it up so it looked clean. And like many who have already seen this piece, they tell me that she is going to smack into the other cliff when she falls off. Well, if she jumps off, is she not going to smack into some cliff or some rock when she is falling into oblivion? Why not spare her the thrill and have her die a little sooner? Lol. I tried using glazes, which explains why it is so shining, I used lots of oil, to make it seem like the left side was farther away. My dad says she looks like me...but isn't it typical to portray yourself in your work? I didn't mean to, and I don't think it is me visually, but I'm there emotionally.

As for the white cloth, it is purity, one of my favorite themes. She falls because she is letting go of her purity. I know we all take those kind of falls in life, purity is a hard thing to let go of, I know it was and is still hard for me. May that be a little thought.

"I knew you'd be the end of me." --Reiyeka