Aliya Boyle
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Traces of isolation
Project type
Mixed media landscape
Date
09/21/2025
My artwork is a mixed media piece with multiple rooms portraying my house being seen through the outer walls. String is going through every room except the outside and my room. There is cardboard separating every room.
The media I used were, alcohol markers, black pen, cardboard, and string. I drew and colored everything on a separate paper and then cut and glued the paper onto a canvas to separate the rooms. I colored everything bright except my room to kind of draw you to it. I put strings in every room but mine and the outside.
My art piece was inspired by my loneliness in a big house I live in. The amount of lines that were colored on the furniture was inspired by trying to make the rooms seem uneasy with how many lines there are that don't need to be there. I tried to portray how uncomfortable I feel in the house I live in and house even though my room is the only room without those lonely traces, it's still dark and dull to signify how uncomfortable I feel in my room even though it's the least uncomfortable.
My goals as an artist is to get better at drawing perspective by eye and getting better at details to make my pieces more realistic and less cartoony (i.e. furniture very plain). This piece helped me pretty well with perspective because I felt good about drawing multiple perspectives after the second or third room. It didn't help me with my detail, I feel like if it was a piece that I worked on for months, I would have considered trying to make the piece more realistic with more details. I also feel like the alcohol markers made the ability to make smaller and more realistic details harder.
I learned after doing a self reflection with my peers that I am a person who likes everything neat and organized in my artworks, adding people in my pieces makes it hard for me to be satisfied about the way I did my artwork. That is why I don't normally add people in my artworks. The final piece isn't what I imagined because there was never really a final piece in my head to begin with. I kind of rolled with what I though up of. This piece will influence my future works because it will make me focus more on my personal problems when doing art to dive deeper into my artistic abilities. This piece made me think and know what the meaning behind the art was and I want to have that feeling I do an artwork again.



