working with memory colors, imagined pathways, and emotional weather this scene doesn’t exist, but I wish it did
I started this piece just to explore colors. I wanted to play with soft, moody greens and blurs that feel like walking through a memory. Not a real place, but maybe the feeling of one I was thinking about how we remember locations in fragments the way the light filtered through the trees, the wet ground, the weird colors of fences.
I didn’t plan the whole composition from the start. I sort of let the colors lead me laying down textures until shapes started forming. Once the trees and paths were formed, I added those neon blue fences to break the natural palette and introduce a touch of surrealism. They’re a bit too blue on purpose, like something glitching in the corner of your eye. And that orange-red arch? That came in last maybe to balance it all. It felt like the scene needed an interruption like a weird structure that doesn’t explain itself. Initially I made a silo or a building in pink but that did not work hahaha.
The characters were fun amd easy to draw they’re kind of echoes of people. like wanderers. You know when you see people in a dream and you know who they are, but you can’t describe their face afterward? That.
My favorite part was realizing that the water reflections didn’t have to be accurate. Just a few swirls and highlights made it feel alive, and I love how the ground blends into water in places, like the trail itself isn’t sure if it’s walkable or not.
Initial reactions when I finished it felt like I accidentally captured something I didn’t know I was chasing. It looks peaceful, but there’s an undertone of almost lost in it. A little eerie, a little nostalgic. The kind of place you find once and can never find again.
