Hot Dog (update)

Sorry this is a bad image. Anyway, I finally finished the bottom so that hopefully it doesn't look so flat. I also went in and tried to tone down the hot dog color. I feel as though the image has more of a heavy dark mood to it, which is what I am going for. However, I feel as though the whole thing could still use some work. 

HotDot

This is the most recent painting I have been working on. I absolutely love how this painting is going. Originally, I thought I would have that advertisement kind of background with one larger figure draped around the image, however, that changed. The bottom looks flat so I am currently working on going in and pulling the ground out, giving it more of a landscape feel. Also, the hotdog itself, in color, stands out a lot in comparison to the figures. So I am going to go back in and tone down the colors some.

Size: roughly 3'x4'

Materials: Oil on canvas

Hot Dog (in progress)

This is where I'm at thus far. It still has some editing that needs to be done but thats where I'm at right now. I've been thinking about going over it and putting in my figure images. The lines of the checkerboard are not as crisp as I would hope for, learned that frog's tape is the best tape to us.

Materials: Oil on canvas

Size: roughly 3'x4'

In Progress Painting

This is what I'm currently working on. You can't tell right now but open space in the center will be a hot dog. I'm currently playing with the idea of food and what value we put on food. I understand the answer to that is relative. So in that case, I'll be working primarily from my own perspective.

The other day I went out to lunch and go a burger with my boyfriend. I couldn't finish the meal, so I just threw away the leftover. Later I was thinking about it and how to me, it wasn't a big deal to through the leftovers out, but to someone else in the world its a huge deal.

I've been thinking about how it is easier not to notice an issue when we don't see it. A girl in one of my classes put it as "out of sight, out of mind." Which I find rather true. It wasn't until I thought about the wastefulness of the situation that I felt bad and when I felt bad, I felt almost shameful.

I find it weird how people, such as myself, are able to waste so easily, yet there are people starving in this world. I find the whole thing completely ironic. So in this work I want to take both those elements and put them together in an image and see what happens.