Artist Statement
By breaking the chains of a fully preconceived idea, my designs and paintings are evolving, and feel more natural.
kimberly delone
My Artistic Style
The most significant aspect of my artworks consists of careful analysis of colors. I believe that it is the vibrant color and shapes in my paintings that leap out and grab a viewer first. Recently, I have incorporated valuable concepts in my artistic tool-belt – strong, geometric shapes, and color unity and temperature.
My Artistic Process
My creative process is as follows. First, I immerse myself in a thorough research of the project. Then, I meticulously apply this research by producing numerous complicated drawings. Finally, I refine these artistic pieces. By using the concepts of color exploration, shape manipulation and composition control I convey a feeling that interacts directly with the viewer’s.
A personal aspect of my paintings is the medium through which I work – primarily acrylic paints, and green “Frogtape” , usually over canvas. The frog tape gives control, and allows me to focus on one shape at a time. It keeps me aware of how color and shape play off each other as balance is needed between these two vital elements. (This method of taping one shape at a time is time consuming, but I find it Therapeutic!)
The continued build-up of shapes creates a work which becomes complex in both structure and sculpture. These forms are carefully thought-out, and created, through my observing real-life shapes and objects, and Internet photos. From these observations I draw elementary forms and linear elements to achieve structure. Many of my pieces have one, two, and three-point intuitive perspective techniques. The elements of shape, value, color, and spatial organization are stressed to develop my painting. The angles and forms of the shapes give a clean modern look, and I am now enjoying this architectural aspect. The usage of positive and negative space composition, which can be easily observed in my “Pink Ball” painting, plays a major role in my creative works.
In all of my works, the viewer will note that simple shapes contrast with vibrant color distribution, giving a dynamic, but also a complementary, perspective . My deeply-rooted passion for color has definitely played a determining role in the creative process of the majority of my works. Very occasionally, I use a “color-recessive” process to enhance the details of the shapes, but more often, I work through the application of an explosion of color as influenced by my emotions and understanding of art. I feel this gives a dramatic and instant shot of emotion to the viewer. I believe that colors and shades, as well as shapes, are internally associated with emotions. Therefore, I strive to create compositions that explore and make use of colors and shapes to provoke and capture the attention of my audience.
I start with a continuous line drawing and then shade it by applying color to make it look more 3D. I have started to “play” a lot with color – this experimentation may lead me to a whole new process. You can already see the development in my paintings when I darken the colors of certain shapes so they appear to be going back into space: in some other areas I lighten colors which creates an illusion of depth in an interesting way. It lends itself to being graphic with a sense of three-dimensionality.
Quite often, my paintings express an imaginary fantasy world despite their precision and use of bold colors and geometric shapes, and I shall continue with this development.