Gestural Painting - Alyssa Burnside

This is my Gestual Drawing

A simple gesture that I seem to do every day for different reasons is pacing. I don't know why I pace except that it helps either with relieving stressing, thinking about stuff or releasing energy build up. In my painting, I used different colors to symbolize the different times that I pace and the emotion that I feel when pacing. 

Black=Anxiety, worry, and depression
Light Blue=thoughtful

Red=Stressed

Orange=Excitment

By using my own feet as the painting tool and my emotions to guide me, I mixed the paint I wanted to use with water to help make it more liquidy providing splatters to the parts where I felt more emotional about something. 

Why did I do this though? Well, I wanted a piece of my art to be related to me. I wanted to show the kind of emotion that I feel every day and by using a simple gesture that I use to help cope with these different emotions, I feel like I can connect more with my audience. 

I worked on this project while actually feeling these different emotions. Whether that's thoughtful or exciting and energetic.