Numb Painting

Aurora Gray is an emerging artist who uses oil paint, acrylic paint, digital media and sculpture with water based clay, however she likes to explore and experiment with other mediums. A recurring subject in her art is the female form, though she does draw men and tries to expand and study other subjects in her work. She completed a Bachelor of Creative Industries at Victoria University in 2018 then a Diploma of Visual Arts-Illustration at Melbourne Polytechnic in 2019. Aurora begins her artworks with a sketch, resizes it digitally to match the surface she is working on and creates a grid. After transferring that to the selected surface, the painting begins, though methods differ slightly depending on the medium. She prefers oil paint because of the vibrant colours and how it blends, creating smooth skin textures, which can be great when painting the human form. Pouring her emotions out onto the canvas or into the clay her work is a cathartic expression of her mental health and sadness, but also creating some more happier artwork with fantasy and surrealist elements that she loves so much. In a way bringing the fantasy world to life through her artwork. She tends to gravitate towards blue as it’s her favourite colour and can be seen a lot throughout her paintings.