Asafo Water Colour

When making these three paintings I kept the Asafo flag theme in mind, and looked at various photos of Asafo flags for composition and motif inspiration. I also used the ‘blocky’ yet loose style used to depict human figures on Asafo flags. I really liked this style of painting humans, and think it’s exactly what I have been aspiring towards, something that is easily recognisable as a human, but with very little detail to explicitly imply so.

I made all three paintings using water colour, although I used acrylic paint for the blue figure in the centre.

I’m not entirely sure what I intended for the figure on top to be, it looks kind of human, but it has a tail, I like painting in this way, just letting the brush go where it wants to go, and create what ever creature it wishes to create.