Paint
Too Much Cholesterol - Acrylic on masionite, 2003
Small thing: big difference is the general theme to this artwork. Paying tribute to Picasso, I went with a cubist style of painting. It shows two people in great pain. Why? Their hearts are clogged with cholesterol. Arteriosclerosis. Bad LDLs. As the walls of one's arteries become filled with cholesterol, blood has a harder time going through them. A heart attach can result if one is not careful.
There's a heart in the centre, with an artery below shows as clogged. The simple colour scheme uses red as the heart's colour, and various shades of blue representing the deoxygenated blood, the colours of panic and sadness. The fatty yellow stands out as the cause of the situation.
Several ideas I had in the earlier stages involved having the figures trapped inside the heart or being overshadowed by it. Instead of using the heart itself to create a claustrophobic feel, I chose to let the canvas itself create a feeling of being closed in. This was accented by the large figure bending over to fell the left space.
Sketches
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