Murugiah

And to do that, I started to also move into analog production.

I wanted to make acrylic paintings, trying to replicate my clean lines in flat colors of my digital aesthetic and try and see what I could do, what I could add with an acrylic painting.

So I was doing a lot of things here, wanting to speak very personally and emotionally with each piece.

And I wanted to see what I could do with acrylic painting.

What kind of things could I add?

So really trying to make something more personal at this time.

And I started making small A2 paintings of very specific ideas.

An early one was called Myopic, and it was one of my characters.

surrounded by vines.

And as you pan up towards the painting, you see these brightly colored flowers and faces.

And it was a piece about not being able to see the wood through the trees.

And if you could climb up those vines and climb above those brightly colored faces and flowers, your mind would be clear.

So I was trying to make a piece like this, which took a bit longer.

So that would be the theme of the painting.

The aesthetics moving to acrylic painting, I wanted to create something that was tangible, a little bit more textured, in addition to my bright colors and bright flat colors.

So the way I did that was...

I do a digital drawing.

I transfer it onto a thick, heavy stock watercolor paper with red ink, because red ink is more forgiving when you paint.

Then, before applying these flat colors, I decided to do these acrylic drip texture washes.

And I would drip this acrylic wash over the painting, over this transferred drawing onto this paper.