L2 painting update | T2W1

Through the holidays I worked on building up some ideas for painting, based around my kaupapa and based off of my artist models - Vincent Van Gogh, Mimmo Paladino, Marilynn Webb. The idea I worked on the most and developed further is a painting inspired by Mimmo Paladino which I've since titled 'Smell The Roses'. 

1st thumbnail sketch- very rough idea

2nd sketch based off of first thumbnail sketch -developing, identifying key aspects

3rd sketch, continuing to strengthen ideas and aspects, identifying the meaning

Final painting.

I'm very proud of how this painting turned out because it incorporates a lot of the stylisation and art aspects of my artist model Mimmo Paladino, I feel like I didn't really include much of that in last year's folio so it's a goal of mine this year to incorporate more as well as combine them. It's a very dark painting both in meaning and appearance which I'm going to try and stray away from on the rest of my board, but again I still like how it's turned out. 

One thing I'm going to try and do in my next paintings is make a more clear link to my kaupapa of mindfulness that's not through actually reading text. However it does link into my kaupapa well I think, it represents one's pessimistic outlook on life, I included the text 'Smell the Roses' as a sort of mock on how people tend to handle other people's mental health -  expecting the tiniest things to make a huge difference when really it doesn't have much of an effect most of the time.