The Parrot
Teo Bei Lin
Glass Paint on Acrylic
2010

This is a painting of a parrot. The parrot is on the right side of the painting. There is only 1 subject matter in the painting, the parrot and the branch it is perched on. The background is divided in a star shape to attract attention to the parrot. Each of these spaces are coloured differently, some with primary colours, some with a mixture with 2 or more colours, and some with 1 or more colours mixed in with transparent paint.

The artist wants to show the colourful parrot as something that is very happy and joyous. Therefore, she employed a largely warm palette with just the border, parts of the background and part of the wing of the parrot to be a cool colour.

The artist is successful in creating this joyous feeling around the parrot as warm colours such as yellow, orange and red gives the impression of happiness. The diagonal lines employed in the composition also successfully made the painting more interesting without distracting the viewers from the main subject matter, the parrot.