Sometimes I like to paint what I feel inside: I usually good at melancholic stuff. It’s what I like to paint most if I have to be sincere.
This Unicon is called “Mesmerise”. I took the inspiration from a Final Fantasy 8’s monster for the name which is also that a horse and a some kind of porcelain.
This painting is done in oil pastels on 42 x 59 cm paper (A2)
Maybe is the pandemic mood (and social distance, the curfew in Italy and other restrictions) or the weather 😅, but I feel kind of lonely and melancholic than other days, and I feel like I’m breaking into pieces in all sections of my life: form personal objectives becoming likely unrealizable to the love section full of failures and loss of trust in the human kind.
I find horses likely fascinating and depending of the contest… scary (Fussli anyone?😅) Anyhow I find them fully expressive. I like to use them to express hursh feelings in all their rawness. I wanted to give a dark and opressive feeling to the artwork.
In the beginning I wanted to keep the entire artwork dark, but then I thought that by using complementary colours for the background the unicorn would pop up, I still have to understand whatever I’ve made the right decision; and while I was listening After Forever songs I decided to “vent” my rage by adding those dark aura effects with charcoal. Floor Jansen’s voice knows how to move the right cords in my emotive spectrum.😁
And then: that’s it! The Mesmerise, a broken unicon which still holds on his dreams!😊
Davide Olla Art 