Sustained Investigation #1

I’m calling this project, Sydney because it is an abstract relief of my friend Sydney. The subject is the hair, face shape, and glasses of my friend Sydney. I chose to create this specific work because I wanted to make portraits, but I didn’t want them to just be regular portraits, so I decided to put defining features on, like glasses and hair color. When I was creating this I had an abstract idea in mind.

For materials, I used paper, colored pencil, glue, tape, and cardboard. I used the colored pencil to give my work color and cardboard to give my work depth. I used a variety of techniques and methods including: cutting and outlining. While creating this work, I paid close attention to making sure that it wasn’t to abstract that you couldn’t tell what it is, but it was still abstract. I wanted my artwork to show a my friend Sydney as a portrait and I did this by making it realistic enough that you could tell who is, but not too realistic.

I like the way the glasses turned out because i had to try multiple times. However, I struggled with cutting the base cardboard because cardboard is just hard to cut without a exact knife. If I created another work like this I may have used watercolor to make the hair, but i didn’t have any. My work shows that I learned how to make a piece of work based off an inquiry question.