Muto's Minis #3

This is one of my oddest experiences so far in the minis process. I started out a bit overzealous with a pencil-drawn, outline sketch which I was planning to easily transform into painted shapes. The lines were designed to represent my frustrated state. I felt trapped in a pit I had covered and camouflaged with my own ignorance and false hopes. I wanted the artwork to look like a bloody, frenzied hand had scratched on the fabric of sanity and the skin of existence until it was too tired to leave any more of its signature of despair.

I didn't quite get that image. Becoming frustrated with displaying my own frustration, I went towards expressing my emotions through disturbing texture and offsetting chaos. This was another experiment with the orange and blue colors I have been playing with recenty. This time I chose bloody reds, fiery oranges, and sickening off-yellows on top of a dark and gloomy blue void. I felt empty and filled with commotion at the same time. The piece ended up lacking a subject, and it looked very confusing. I decided to add an obvious 3D texture popping off the page to give the work a theme. After a short brainstorm, I decided to use a plain, texture medium to write the Chinese character for hate. It didn't fit with the original inspirational emotions, but I thought it would be funny because I hated the piece at the moment. After it sat out of sight for a few days, I liked it when I saw it again.



What do you think?

Do you have any similar stories of an idea evolving completely out of control?

~Muto