When I was looking at the other ap art student's self portraits from past years, I kind of wanted to try something that I have not done before. I started off by taking pictures of myself in many different poses and also trying to show emotions in my selfies. This is the picture that I had really liked and Ms. Rossi liked. After I had my picture, I was trying to think of many ways I can try to make my self portrait unique. I thought about having a certain part of my face to have color in it and the other parts to just be black and white. Then I took that idea and instead of changing the colors, I thought about making it geometric. I decided to go with that idea and I started sketching out my face on a wooden canvas. I had a very difficult time with all the proportions on my face, I would make the nose too big or I would not align the eye in the right spot. That cost me a lot of time and eventually I had to project my picture onto my canvas to help with getting all the proportions right. After that I drew out all the triangles on the one part of my face and I filled in each triangle with one color that seemed to fit in that area of my face. I had done most of that work at home because I have a lot more paints at home and that way I didn't have to mix paints for every triangle. Those triangles took me a long time to paint and I had to rush to finish the rest of my face before our feel good friday. I am very happy of how it turned out though. I love how you can tell there is a light source above my head and I love how it looks realistic outside of the triangles. I was afraid that I would mess up my skin color after I finished the triangle portion of my face. I also like how the triangle colors still flow with the rest of my face. This is one of my favorite pieces!
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May 2016
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