The Beauty of Insomnia

The Beauty of Insomnia
June 2012
Acrylic Paint, and Oil pastel

Insomnia    {in-som-nee-uh} :
The inability to obtain sufficient sleep; difficulty in falling or staying asleep; sleeplessness.


For some reason over the course of the past weeks I have not had my regular sleeping pattern... I love my sleep, however I find myself unable to fall asleep, or stay asleep, and am up until the wee hours of the morning sketching, painting, watching movies, or checking my Facebook...
The Beauty of Insomnia was first started with the image of the lunar moth, last weekend when I got to my cabin this beautiful moth was on the sidewalk. As I started to move around the canvas I wanted to create a feeling of beauty with the flowers, stars, and planets. Since, right now being able to fall asleep would be beautiful...

Dreamer Series

Bigger Dreams
By Victoria Johnson. April 2012
Acrylic Paint and transfer, Colored Pencil, & Glitter

This is a two part series. I created, "Bigger Dreams," as part of my Intro Art class at school. This project was to work on multi-media skills and learn how to do acrylic transfers. This piece was inspired by my previous painting (Starry Night). I wanted to create a dream like quality representing where I am at in my journey of life. In this painting there is a dream catcher- representing that I have dreams and goals. A Peacock feather to represent royalty and good luck- I am named after Queen Victoria. My face/the moon, I am the focus of my dreams, and there are pieces torn out to look like craters but also to show that I am missing pieces, and there is the quote which is something I say to my friends and family. 

 

 

"Dreams of a Child"
By Victoria Johnson. April/May 2012
Acrylic Paint and Transfer

After creating, Bigger Dreams, I wanted to keep painting with the same theme, so I created "Dreams of a Child." Which I wanted to be very full and busy like the mind and dreams of children. I also put a tree on top of the images to represent life and growing up. The acrylic transfer I decided to do on this multi media is an image of myself when I was about 6 years old.

 

*close up image on the acrylic transfer*

 

 







Starry Night



Starry Night replicated by Victoria Johnson.
April 2012. Acrylic Paint.



For my intro to art class we were given the opportunity to pick a painting done by a famous artist and try and replicate it to the best of our abilities. I picked Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. This is one of my favorite paintings, and I had a lot of fun working on it. It took me about 8 hours to complete. I love all of the different colors that Van Gogh used and all of the symbolism he had put into this painting. The main message to take away from his painting is, we will only be happy in our dreams... or when we die. {Starry Night was completed shortly before his suicide...}

Please take the time to check out my other art blog with some of my older work from when I was in High School:

myart03.blogspot.com

Thank you very much!!!

ME

Hi, my name is Victoria Anne Johnson, I graduated from Hermantown High School class of 2011 {yippee!} and I am going to college to major in Art. Over the course of my first year at the College of St. Scholastica I learned about the importance of media and the Internet. So, I am creating a blog to help make my art portfolio come to life. I have another blog that I have put some of my previous works from high school on. I would like to use this blog to show the next phase of my life and figuring out who I want to be as an artist.


Peace&Love
Victoria