Painting Self Portrait
I created an Acrylic, Watercolor Self Portrait piece. Although my original idea was to create it to be more realistic, I should know by many attempts of creating Realistic pieces, my stylistic choice of creating semi-realism shines to bright. The highlights of the yellow and blue highlight the curls of the hair and the bridge of the nose. Blue mixed in with the blended colors of the wine red, deep purple, and magenta shades of the shirt. I drew the face to the side since personally when it comes to my face, the side looks the best, so i wanted to enchance my fetures and show what i like most about myself.
Inspiration
Chuck Clouse is a well known portrait artist, who is known for having to overcome a life changing injury to be able to furhter create art. Chuck Clouse's more recent art is made up of geometric bloches of color that form a face structure. They are not blended or smeer together in anyway, the squares that he fills all blend together from far away to form a face. Although the art itself didn't inspire the stylistic choices i chose to present in my own art, Chuck Clouses story and growth as an artist does. From starting off as a photo-realistic, black and white, painter to semi-realism painter using bright colors and geometric shapes. Having to overcome an injury that every changes his life. He inspires to continue doing art no matter what obsticals come in my way.
Similarities
Differences
- Both are self portraits
- Paintings
- Use of bright colors
- Expression of self stylistic choises
- Semi realistic
Differences
- Chuck Clouse used oil-paints while I used Acrylics
- The size of the canvas's are different
- The way the head is facing is different, Chuck Clouse is looking forward while mine is 3/4th of a veiw.
- I blended the colors together leaving no white gaps between the different shades. While Clouse keeps the colors seperated.
- The backgrounds are different. I used one solid color of gold while Chuck Clouse used many different background colors.
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My Process |
I started to work more on the skin tones now, mixing a very light yellow with a pink shade. I didnt want my skin to be pale and have blue tones, so i mixed it with different types of red undertones. I only shaded the side of my face with a dark purple which eventually started to vade into a light purple. In my style, the upper lip is always darkned out by black so i added it to bring something familiar into all my works.
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Using the sketch of the outline of the hair i started to fill it in by creating individual curls to it. I myself have vurly hair so i wanted to express it. I didnt want the hair to blend together like the shirt did, so i used individual strokes from brushes till it slowly filled in the color, leaving no white space.
I wanted the background to pop out most, and gold seemed to be the best color to bring out the deep whine reds i chose. I did the background mostly out of watercolor, since the aplication was smother and didnt take much of time. |
ACT Questions
- Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect upon your work? I used the story of Chuck Clouse to inspire me to continue on with the project. Which soon created my own semi-realistic digital self portrait.
- What is the overall approach(point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration? The over all approach i wanted to go for in this piece is staying true to my own personal style all while creating it into a medium i myself am not to comfortable in doing. Painting is not my favorite thing to do but i pushed through.
- What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration? That being true to ones personal style and medium choice can create more of a creative boost than being refined to a project that is told to be created. By expanding out of my comfort zone i was able to create a self portrait of myself that i feel comfortable with.
- What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research? The color choices and how to stylistically put that into play, staying true to my style.
- What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research? That there is many things that can go into creating the meaning and the execution's of ones work. Ones story about how they overcome things to continue their dream willl inspire others to move forward.