In this project, I wanted to demonstrate feelings of warmness, comfort and soothingness sharply contrasting feelings of pain, danger and uneasiness through color and the delicate nature of a rose. I choose warm, inviting, cheerful colors such as pink and yellow to create harmony in the first painting and then created discord by use of dark and subdued colors with a splash of vibrant red for an alarming element. The rose is to symbolize a delicate nature with vulnerability. It's subject to its environment and the seasons which can destroy and force it to wither away. A rose's only defense is its thorns that are illustrated in the discord piece but they're absent in the painting displaying harmony. A rose can be beautiful and inviting until you are pricked by its thorns and the flower's innocence vanishes.
Harmony
Discord