Colorful

"Colorful"

5"x5"

The subject of my creation is a photograph of my face, that I then manipulated by adding color to the facial expressions. My piece shows different values of colors, from lighter to darker shades. I got feedback from my earlier pieces to possibly use selective color to emphasis on different facial features, so I decided to add color only to the facial features I wanted people to focus on. This relates to my life because this is a painting and print of myself and my features stand out because they are colorful.

I used acrylic paint, on a print of myself on drawing paper. I took an image of myself and printed it off to use to paint on. I used smaller paint brushes on all my facial features because I used many colors in smaller areas. I wanted to make the brush strokes loose to challenge my artistic style. I decided to acrylic paint because I wanted to show a variety of vibrant and bright colors .

I used value in my artwork to show the areas where there are darker and lighter tones. I also showed contrast by making the my facial features the focal point. I like how my painting is more abstract than my other paintings. My next steps in this project would be to add more colors or possibly make the nose look better.