Color Design Portrait

Artist Statement

This is a self portrait where I used 84 different colors to create worked-in value strips throughout the piece. After sketching it, I used acrylic paint to add all the color. I chose to do this artwork because I thought most people were just going to break up their paper into repetitive shapes and color those one flat color, so I wanted to be different, and also I prefer portrait painting, so I chose to paint a person made out of multicolor, smooth blended triangles and shapes.

I used color, formal balance, and shape in this piece. Color is used as the main focus of this piece, as the assignment was to use all the colors and a bland of each one. Formal balance is used because i wanted the piece to be mostly focused on this one character in the middle, rather than around the piece, or some off-center object, so I placed the character in the center and crated a background around it. Lastly, shape is used because lots of the focus of the piece is in the random, unpredictable shapes of the face and neck. My project evolved because I thought the colors would be easier to tell apart and would make the face easy to see, but since I had to use such vibrant colors, I wasn't able to do that, and I wish I had.

There isn't really any meaning, I just thought the concept would look cool. It relates to my life because I don't really like color, and therefore this project forced me a bit out of my comfort zone, and it shows. I am a very inexperienced painter, so it's bit messy in some of the blends I made. Also the bright, complimentary colors in the background remind me of Mexican architecture and painting, so that's cool. I would make the colors blended better and lighter so the face could be seen if I could change something about this piece.