"Wild Seed" inspired Scene- Visual


Brian Scott
 Harris
 ENGL 2016-45498 
December 2, 2024 
Major Project Written Portion 

My visual project is an acrylic painting collaborated with Lenim Miguel Zelaya from the Tuesday-Thursday 11:00am - 12:15pm African American Literature class. The subject matter is a visualization of Doro and Anyanwu boarding Doro’s slave ship as they go from Africa to America in chapter 3. Using a plank, Doro is shown boarding the ship first as Anyanwu watches him, daunted by the unknown symbolized by how the image of the ship itself takes up most of the painting, creating an intimidating presence in comparison, as Anyanwu, who is in male form during this time, is dwarfed by it in the bottom right corner as she stands on the peer. With the sun’s placement in the top right of the composition, we tried our best to make the lighting reflect as such in the lighting and shading of Anyanwu’s hair, Doro’s coat, and the details on the peer as well as the shadow of the plank they are using to board the boat. Getting into our contributions, Miguel did a rough sketch of the composition after choosing a scene out of the book to depict, while I did a more detailed sketch as we did research on what slave ships looked like. Despite society’s knowledge of them, we found VERY few reference images, as most the images we found were diagrams of the methods slave traders would pack slaves in their ships themselves. After finalizing the sketch, we worked it up with acrylic paints, starting off with the sky and touching upon the ship and Anyanwu, trying to get down a color palette we’d use throughout the painting making sure we would occasionally thin the paint with water to make sure we were committed to the color or not. Painting in layers, we 
 would go into the details of the logs and the golden rim and the peer until we came out with the one we have now



 

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