I'm 14 and a girl. I want to paint splatter one wall with backlight paint and get backlights so it will glow. Then for the other 3 walls I want to paint top half green and bottom half white to draw on with sharpies. I want to get wall decals of wires with birds on them and shoes thrown over them. With a black and white bird in cage bedspread. I have black and silver loft bed. Would this be good? Oh and I want a black ceiling and put stars on it to represent my love of harry potter because in Harry potter the grand hall has an open ceiling. Would this be a cool idea?
Sounds AWESOME.
But your parents might not let you do some of those things :C
Like painting the ceiling black. I asked to do that as a kid and got a big fat NO. To get around that, they let me do a dark purple (as if that is any easier to paint over!). Then I put those glow in the dark stars on it. When I turned out the light, it was just like sleeping under the stars! You don't even need to paint the ceiling for that effect! (Plus a black ceiling will make your room seem smaller. Some kind of crazy optical illusion). Or you could find creative ways to make the ceiling black without making it permanent. Like tacking a sheet up there or covering it with black paper. You seem pretty creative, I'm sure you can figure something out!
Glow in the dark stick on stars: http://www.amazon.com/University-Games-19065-Star-Explosion/dp/B00001LDDR
If they let you do the sharpie thing, then that would be pretty cool. If not, ask if you can get chalk board paint. It comes in lots of colors other than black. Then you can draw til your heart's content, then erase it when you don't like it! (or if you mess up). That way, you can change how your room looks when ever you want, just by erasing your "caulk board".
Oooh check it out! They also make DRY ERASE paint! Your whole wall could be a dry erase board!
http://www.amazon.com/Rust-Oleum-241140-Interior-Specialty-Products/dp/B003W0JSUS
And black and white always look so good together. You could even use green sheets or pillows (same color as your wall) to tie it all together.
Hope you can convince your parents to let you do it! Tell them they are "stifling your creativity" or something if they say no
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Artist Matthew Brannon's Art Work and Paintings at the Saatchi Gallery
Matthew Brannon’s work explores the gulf between social ideals and personal crisis. Using screen printing as form of analogue reproduction, Brannon’s images carry both the suggestion of mass replication and aura of original artworks. Directly challenging the void between language and actuality, Brannon often combines text and image to illustrate the potential for dysfunction. In Police Officer Giving Up, Brannon juxtaposes a neutral symbol of a houseplant with a statement of desperation. Exuding the inadequate sentiment of greeting cards, Brannon offers decoration as a feeble mask for emotional depletion.
Matthew Brannon’s How It All Ends he creates an ironic game of semiotics, using an abstracted plant as a visual representation of the accompanied text. Reworking a subject associated with art historical religious paintings, he doesn’t present a fiery Armageddon or cherubic heaven, but rather a bland composition reminiscent of wall paper swatches or gift shop stamps. The image is compelling through its crafted elegance, creating a blithe meditative focus. In confronting the spiritual, Brannon offers a bereft philosophy, conceiving the human condition with disappointment and chagrin.
Matthew Brannon’s work investigates media imagery as a cultural interface, exploring the gap between expectation and inadequacy. Using topical problems such as substance abuse, body image, and class divide as metaphors for social and psychological fractioning, Brannon pits visual ‘ideals’ versus internalised corruption to create conceptual instances of breakdown. In Hair of the Dog, Brannon’s clip art-style motif reduces the idea of individuality to an infinitely replicable generic. Coupled with a cynical script typeset in ornamental font his blossoms become emblematic of disease, addiction, and futility.Matthew Brannon’s prints convey a poetic distillation. Conjuring a complete image from the most meagre information, the ‘messaging’ of Brannon’s images is transferred through their subtlety of form. Situated between luxurious refinement and divested replication, Brannon adopts the associations of design to comment on psychology as by-product of consumer environment. In Sick Whore, Brannon underscores a spindly plant with an abject description or insult. Embossed with the finality of an epitaph, Brannon sums up a totality of a frail, abused, and embarrassing existence.
Matthew Brannon’s HYENA is presented as a vinyl LP atop a plinth. Illustrating the effectiveness of packaging over content, the object exudes a precious quality as product and collectable. The recording itself, however is much more sinister. Featuring a caged hyena at a Berlin zoo, the soundtrack captures a disturbing symphony of clattering metal, audience rumblings, and breaking bones, beneath an aria of the animal’s frantic bark-laughter. In this discrepancy between outward appearance and contained turmoil, Brannon creates a haunting analogy for tenuity of human experience.Matthew Brannon adapts his eel motif as a logo of power and class divide. The image itself contains multiple symbolism: as loathsome viper, lowly animal, and revolutionary icon of early America. Rendered in black and white, the delicate pattern is reminiscent of both lace and tire tracks. Humorously recalling the colonial motto “Don’t Tread On Meâ€, Brannon’s snake supplants ideas of freedom liberation as an elitist decal of ‘good taste’.
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