Days When I Recalled the Sea
Sienna M Wong
Artists turn experiences into tangible moments. With my work I hope to immortalize and convey the beauty of the natural world as I experience it. These acrylic paintings are a collection of scenes relating to my travel experiences near the ocean. For me, these interpretations of my own experiences are how I would want to remember these travels years from now. They are extraordinarily common scenes, but they show the uniqueness of each moment that we can experience on this planet and the romanticization we can hold for them as time moves on.
Acrylic painting is a medium I never thought I would work with professionally. In comparison to oil paints, acrylics are known to be full of disadvantages. So, in this collection I challenged myself to understand how to merge acrylic art with my own painting style to create an eye-catching finished piece. Rather than taking stylistic inspiration from other artists I focused on my own reference photos from these moments in order to recreate them in my own style. I took liberties with the choice of color and final composition, but these paintings, are as close as I could get to the actual scene.
