Talking Colors Qingyang Zhang
Talking Colors
During 2021 is one difficult year for me. There were a lots of things happen and made me feel unhappy. One of the bad things was about my relationship with my ex. There was a period make me feel dim since us quarrel to each other and broke up. And these drawing are describe my feeling at this period. My personal world was dark at that time. In real life I can’t distinguish the day and night because I can’t sleep without drinking some alcohol. I use some dark and light color together to show my inner entanglement and regrets for the memory between us. I use some different materials to draw like the watercolor, acrylic paint, ink, pigment for Chinese painting, crayon. And one of the drawing I also combined with Chinese paper cutting.
26th October 2022 @ 1:33 pm
I like your work. The first two line drawings feel very complicated to draw. The first one looks more like a mountain in an old Chinese painting than a wave, which is hard to relate to the water, and the second one looks more like a reef than a wave to me. Perhaps the effect would be more obvious with a little colour fill. The fourth picture with the waves on a black background gives me a feeling of silence and mystery, evoking some mysterious legends about the seabed and making me want to explore. The last few images you have made from heat shrinkable and other plastic materials are like real spindrifts very much. But I think it would be more interesting to see the reflection of light through the heat shrinkable to create the same shimmering effect as on the surface of the water.