These sunflower paintings are part of a big picture--one that combines art and psychology. Completed as part of the requirements for my honors thesis, these paintings required something of me I'm not typically inclined to: not using

mixed-media technique and extreme repetition. 

 

This research project intended to explore the connection between color and emotion. A two-study research project investigated the relationships between art-making and the emotional color response. Both studies sought to identify the similarities between people with near-diversities, such as autism, and people without.

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The second study (the one including the sunflowers you see here) required participants to record their emotional responses to twenty-four monochromatic sunflowers painted with four different mediums.

This study sought to identify the differences in emotional reactions to various painting mediums.