My painting depicts that no matter what kind of journey you may be on, there are others on their own journeys that you will run into. We are all in our own story or journey, and I love hearing from others about how they came to be where they are right now. I don’t take for granted that my paths cross with others, and I try to be hospitable and provide a table for those who need it. In my painting, there are long journey symbols on the bottom and the right side, with both of them connecting at a table with people gathered around it. On the left side, there is a pot pouring water out of it, with steam coming off of it. This is the Aquarius symbol, and the steam represents that it is an air sign. Lastly, the constellation in the middle is the Aquarius constellation, which is my star sign.
I created this piece by first researching other Aborigine dot art pieces, looking for symbols that I could incorporate into my own piece. I used Photoshop for the whole process of painting, which started with an outline. I drew everything that I wanted on the painting as a rough idea of where to position all of the symbols, and then I got to painting. I started with the long journey symbols on the bottom and the right and then drew the table that connects them. I moved on to the pot that is pouring water on the left and then drew the steam coming off of it. Lastly, I used all of the open space in the middle to draw the Aquarius constellation. The painting ended up looking a little bit empty, so to fix this I took the colors that I used for the symbols and made them darker, painting the background around the symbols with their corresponding colors. I wanted to leave some space open however so I left the area in the middle with a much lighter concentration of dots, with the only dots there representing stars.
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