Yellow Tulips

Thalia S.

Oil paint on canvas

• Artist Statement

  This painting started with the goal of looking realistic, but soon after starting I decided to change the style to something more abstract. The process of creation is very important to me, and when making art I tend to be intuitive rather than following a plan or sticking with exactly the same idea I started with. For this piece, I didn't have a specific type of flower in mind, but the final result ended up looking like tulips. I chose to do flowers because I've always liked them and thought they were pretty. Flowers could be a fun thing to paint while incorporating bright colors and abstraction, and still turn out nicely because they can be interpreted in so many different ways.

• Creative Statement

  To me, creativity means either making something original, or taking something that already exists and making it unique and your own.