A heart like yours

Alright, hi. My name is Kim and I fell in love with oil painting. I turned two of my favourite drawings into paintings- and even though these two were like my first proper attempt using oils, I'm so happy with how they turned out. I even made a youtube video about the whole progress. Woah!

Okay, I don't really know where to begin really.. This painting and the video in particular are a great example of things I thought I couldn't do- well at least not in a way I wanted them to turn out, but turned out better than I hoped.

Actually, I think I just need to stop talking for a few minutes and let you watch the video first. I did a voice over (eeeeks) talking about soms bits and pieces, so I don't see the point of summing up what I am going to say. I do want to go into depth a bit more about those things in a minute- so excuse me for my rambling already. 

Well then. I hope you liked that! Now I am going to write three paragraphs about the whole progress (just joking, kind of).. As I mentioned, about a year ago I did the illustration of the two hearts in my sketchbook and immediately it was one of my favourite things I ever put in one of my sketchbook. I wanted it to be more than just two drawings in my sketchbook while even drawing it, so I thought I would paint them eventually. I did, only a year later after I made the two drawings. Oh well! 

The reason this is one of my favourite work I ever did is probably because it has a meaning behind it, which a lot of other drawings don't. I mean, take for example the drawings I do of random animals or objects, with all the little abstract figures- I guess you could say, in it. The last thing I drew was an avocado, and the only reason I drew an avocado is simply because I just like to eat them, haha. 

You could say these two paintings have a bit of a bigger meaning beside the fact I like flowers and drawing hearts. It all started after watching the movie 'If I Stay'. At the end of the movie a song that went like "how could a heart like yours ever love a heart like mine". I haven't got the words to explain how powerful that sentence felt to me and straight from there I did the sketch in my sketchbook. I didn't copy the sketch exactly by the way, I didn't really like the way I drew the flowers, so I completely changed them.

But as I said in the video, I like everyone to have their own interpretation and reason behind it.

 

 

 

Now I'm kind of debating if I should turn these two into prints or not. I made prints of the hearts I drew in my sketchbook already, click here if you want to check them out! And I don't want to add another product that's almost similar to a product I already have, if that makes sense. Or maybe I'll make prints on a bigger paper, the same scale as the paintings are..

So what do you think, prints or nah? Anyway, I hope you liked this blogpost, the painting, and my video of course.

Love,
Kim.