Meltdown

Meltdown

Meltdown is a piece by me, Jenna Bussey. This is an emotional piece, it depicts the head of girl that is slowly melting. The background has a variety of colored drip oozing down the inky blackness. The thing that is first catches the viewers attention is the hair, the way it drips down the face and its striking red color can almost be mistaken for blood. The piece mostly has circular shapes to it though there are a few triangles within some parts of the hair. Many colors wer used but the most used are tan, red and black.
The expression combined with the melting features gives a feeling of horrified despair, the colorful drips in the background add to the oddness of the piece. Some even drip onto the headband face, following the natural curves of it to add surrealism.
Overall the piece is meant to show how some changes in our life can be frightening and strange, that sometimes the things that makes us who we are can slip through our fingers and melt away into something......new.

The Return

The Return

The Return was painted by me, Jenna Bussey. This piece is a pattern portrait, in it I combined an
Aztec mask with Chinese style of face painting, using analogous colors yellow, yellow-green, and green. I mixed in the finest bit of black with the mask to give it an aged and ancient look.
The dark background serves to make the face pop out more and draw more attention to it and the grey smoke is to add an air of mystery to it.
The work evokes a feeling of suspense and dread as well as mystery, the eyes of the mask almost seem to glow in hidden animosity.

The art of breaking and healing

The art of breaking and healing

This is a metamorphosis piece depicting a plate shattering and reforming into a rose while utilizing 36 colors of the color wheel, each color has an emotional meaning from square to square. The colored-tied emotions go perfectly with the social value of this piece. Everyone, at some point, has had their hearts broken or have lost someone very dear to them. There are five stages of grief that we go through at this time, before the first stage we are in a state of disbelief, the color of purple and the plate remaining whole. As the first stage, denial, begins cracks appear in the plate and the color turns to shades of yellow and orange yellow as confusion and anxiety are experienced. As denial turns to anger the plate shatters and turns red and purple red, the colors of anger bitterness. When the anger runs its course the shattered pieces morph into petals of bargaining expressing frustration and frantic attempts with orange and orange red. At last the realization hits that no amount of bargaining will change what happened, the petals come together in depression, blues and green blues taking place of frustration. Final we come to acceptance, the petals have pulled themselves together to form a beautiful white rose. Putting the past back in the past where it belongs and looking towards the future the colors of green and yellow green in the background show enthusiasm and contentment.

Small pieces in Nature at Night theme

Galaxy Stars

This piece was made using paper plate cut out with photo shopped paper glued to them, using the complimentary colors orange and blue in an unity array.

Moth Monarchs

This piece utilizes analogous colors with a complimentary of purple in an asymmetrical placement.

Hummingbird Night March

Hummingbird Night March is work using paper plate cutouts with the triadic colors green, purple, and orange utilizing variety.

A Light in the Jungle

This is my metal piece with an analogous background with the metal piece placed in a symmetric way.

Moonlit Night

Moonlit Hill

This is my main piece for my Nature at Night theme. It encompasses the use of texture, lighting, shading, and a triadic color scheme.

Still life fruit

Loving Fruits

More abstracts

Sample 

Dribbles and Bubbles