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OKAY MR LACK I KNOW IT LOOKS BAD BUT HEAR ME OUT!!! Okay so basically my self portrait is about quarantine and how it is to me. Which is why it’s so erratic and kind of awful but yeah. BASICALLY so you have some sort of understanding of it I used a plastic bag that my parents used to hold their food at the supermarket today as my recycled object. I started by just drawing a regular self portrait (I attached the unpainted version if you wanna see it) and then I cut the bag in half and used it to paint over my portrait. I basically just chose colors that made me feel certain feelings that I feel during quarantine like with the right side of the head I feel sadness, hopelessness, and loneliness so I used like dull grays and tans and very cool sort of empty colors. Then the left side is the anger, rage and rebellious part (and a TEENSY bit of fear) so I used really rich warm, statement colors that mixed to make really loud browns and yeah basically it’s just really loud. Also instead of dabbing it on almost tentatively like with the sad side I smeared it all on so the colors really mixed together. THEN onto the nose and mouth. Seeing we’re quarantined for a respiratory disease I chose the most sickly colors I could find and sort of dripped them on there in a (I know it’s disgusting) “mucusey” kind of way. Then I did an X with the warmer colors to represent the social distancing and the 6 feet apart. FINALLY the bottom of the piece to me feels closest to the heart and that is where the hope and happiness lies so I used the happiest most lively colors that to me feels like they bring life and dabbed them on in a flowery kind of way. THEN I hot glued the two pieces of the plastic bag to the face as tears (you know to add to the whole suffering thing).

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