Sophia Mickelson Art Portfolio

Sophia Mickelson "Smiling through the fire"

8 by 10, Painting, 2025

The artwork I created here is a product of my own imagination. I love spooky stuff. I also wanted to convey how I felt in that moment. The process I used was just putting my paint brush on the page not really thinking of anything. My artwork means for me personally how everyone at one point or another has gone through a point in time where there smiling through the hardest parts of life when they just want to curl into a ball and cry. One of my most difficult struggles was probably the fact that I was watching everyone else do better than me and the way I overcame that is I didn't not going to lie. If I could start over I would change the background to red orange and yellow instead of straight red. My style I try to show with this painting is a surreal look I am the only person who likes doing creepy drawings and painting and artwork out of this class. I love how the ashes look like there falling out of the sky. Simblizing the rain in the storm of fire.

Sophia Mickelson "The day I chose myself."

9,12 , Painting, 2025

My idea was doing a portrait painting of myself because I had just went through a messy breakup. I wanted to choose myself over everyone else. How it evolved into this is by people telling me I'm worthless and no one cares about me. I used the technique of flat brushes and using a very messed up brush for the grass. My artwork means choose yourself over everyone else. I want the audience to think about a time in there life where they thought no one could love them even themselves. Some of my struggles were crying while painting this and how I overcame that was with time and healing. Another thing that I struggled with was keeping the motivation to keep going because I didn't know if it mattered. I had all my friends leave me. people start making me feel bad for everything. How I overcame that is just gave up caring. I was trying to go for a realistic type of style. But it came out as a cartoonist style. I love how I made my eyes look black thats the part of the painting that showed that I was struggling.

Sophia Mickelson "The sky looks pretty when family is up there"

8 by 10, Painting, 2025

I got this idea from my own head I seen a picture of the sky I took and it was the night my grandmother died it was outside her house. It evolved from just doing it because its a landscape painting to doing it for my grandmother. I used fine tip brush for very detailed parts like the houses and the power lines. I also blended and tried to mix colors all the time to get the perfect shade of the color I needed. My artwork is literally just for my grandmother. I hope the audience looks at it and thinks of a time they had the pretty view at the worst time. The most difficult part for me was that this is not my type of style of painting. I like doing non objective paintings and this was trying to make it exactly like the picture. If I started over on this painting I would have made it less realistic maybe added some color affects on it so it made it look like a cartoonist sky. This art is supposed to be realistic but I think it turned out surreal. What makes it unique to my style is that it is pink and dark purple skies. I love the detail of the painting like the power lines.

Sophia Mickelson "When striking out is a great thing"

16 by 20, Painting, 2025

I got this idea from my bowling coach. The Idea evolved from me supposed to do a real bowling pin they gave me. But I didn't get it in time and I needed to start a painting so I started painting a picture of a bowling pin. I used the projector to trace out my bowling pin then painted white. Then I used black finetip brush to outline it and add the 2 lines for the black and read stripes. The artwork is supposed to mean something to just me. Bowling saved me more than any other thing or person ever could have. I want the audience to think about trying out bowling because of this pin. The most difficult part for me was the adding dirt because I needed it a really specific color and I spent like 20 minutes mixing blending till I got the perfect color. If I started all over I think I would have changed the width between the red and black stripe. This artist style is realistic. What makes it unique to my own personal style is there are so many imperfections that I put there on purpose because not everything is perfect. I love the size and realism of the pin.

Sophia Mickelson "The explosion of color underneath the sadness"

16 by 20 Painting, 2025

I got this idea from some of the recycled canvases. I at first was just splatting color on the painting. Then I got advice to put tape and tape it and put a solid color and make the pop of color come out it would look cool. I used tape and splatter paint. I also used solid colors and rainbows. This artwork means to shine colors even when things feel hard and impossible. I want the audience to look at it and think a unicorn exploded underneath the broken mess. The most dificult for me was to keep on one thing at a time because I was so excited and I just wanted to do all of everything all at once. I overcame that by forcing myself to stick to one thing at a time. Im in love with this painting if I could change one thing I think I would have added more bright colors. This art style is non-objective. I think its unique to my own style because I really really really love splatter painting and all that unique textured stuff. I love how the color pops out within all the black.

Sophia Mickelson "Smiling through the fire"

8 by 10 Painting, 2026

The artwork that I have created here is a remastered version of my first painting. I got the idea from my other painting that I didn't put much detail into. The technique I used was shading and fine point brush to outline the painting. The artwork is showing how people can smile even when there going through hell. I want the audience to think about a time they were in a scary time and got through it. What was the most difficult is the fact I had to sketch it on to the thing and if I don't do it right I can't go back. I overcame my struggles by stop overthinking. I would probably change the size of the head. This is a Surreal artwork. This make it unique to me because I am the only person I know that paints scary. I love how much detail I have on the ribcage that is dripping blood.

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