Self portrait
World behind Brandon Martin 91cmx91cm 12 December 2015 Exhibition text every person has a whole world in themselves, and even though sometimes people don't notice you Which is the reason I placed myself in black and white they just see a person a ordinary person but they don't see your world your potential and intentions which is why for my piece I wanted to place different colors and figures representing my world. |
Planning
(1) started brainstorming on how I would place myself in the portrait
(2) I was debating on either using the projector to sketch myself or free hand draw myself
(3)started to think of a meaning I could give the art
(4)thought of my artistic inspiration
Process
For my process I first sketched myself and the background on the canvas .Finally after I had the sketch on my canvas I started painting a bit of my hair and eyes after I paused doing that portion of the painting and started doing the background as I knew the background would be the part of the painting that would take a larger amount of time to complete, For the background I made multiple colors in total I made more than forty different colors. I than started doing myself after I was done painting the painting I spent some descent amount of time checking for any minor details I could fix.
(1) started brainstorming on how I would place myself in the portrait
(2) I was debating on either using the projector to sketch myself or free hand draw myself
(3)started to think of a meaning I could give the art
(4)thought of my artistic inspiration
Process
For my process I first sketched myself and the background on the canvas .Finally after I had the sketch on my canvas I started painting a bit of my hair and eyes after I paused doing that portion of the painting and started doing the background as I knew the background would be the part of the painting that would take a larger amount of time to complete, For the background I made multiple colors in total I made more than forty different colors. I than started doing myself after I was done painting the painting I spent some descent amount of time checking for any minor details I could fix.
Meaning
The meaning and the interpretation I would like people to take from my art piece is that every person has a whole world in themselves, and even though sometimes people don't notice you Which is the reason I placed myself in black and white they just see a person a ordinary person but they don't see your world your potential and intentions which is why for my piece I wanted to place different colors and figures representing my world.
The meaning and the interpretation I would like people to take from my art piece is that every person has a whole world in themselves, and even though sometimes people don't notice you Which is the reason I placed myself in black and white they just see a person a ordinary person but they don't see your world your potential and intentions which is why for my piece I wanted to place different colors and figures representing my world.
Artistic inspiration
For my self portrait I choose to do it based off of two art movements which are cubism and fauvism. I knew fauvism was composed by multiple colors which was what I intended to interpret for my background. For cubism I did not take it to literal as in cubism the facial aspects are disproportionate and exaggerated and I intended to keep my face proportional although in the background I did do many distorted shapes mimicking cubism trying to connect the background to both art movements.one piece that inspired me for fauvism and helped me develop my idea better was fauvism by Matisse. For my cubism inspiration I was very intrigued Reflection
In my self portrait I would describe the whole project successful as I managed to deliver my idea and meaning although it was a struggle as I did have to fix the portrait as there was an accident it was also challenging to do so many colors but at the end the time dedication and work placed was worth it I am happy of the final result. |