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Phase 2:
As I mentioned before, I worked on this piece for four days and so in that time my ideas changed from simple to more complicated. Of course I didn't paint the entire four days, I took several breaks from the work. And each time I came back to the painting I saw something new I want to add. This time it was the red panda. On one of my breaks I watched a nature documentary about endangered pandas. It broke my heart to learn that these animals, that have been my favorite since I was a little girl, are an endangered species. So this is where the panda came from and there was the boy who had nothing left in this world to care about but this kind little animal. At first I only sketched the panda from my memory and as you can see there isn’t much resemblance to the real animal at this stage, but it's all about generating the idea first.
Then there is the mask. I've done a lot of stuff with masks before and I think that it's a very good way to communicate in artistic way. You can keep your thoughts to yourself and express your feelings through your actions, not with an open and vulnerable face. That's what I thought in this case. Animals appeal to our hearts and the focus of this piece is the face of the panda and not the boys.
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