sustained investigation 4

Plastic Surgery 9x12 inches

I’m calling this project, "Plastic Surgery". The subject is a woman who has the markings drawn on by doctors to show the surgical incision lines for plastic surgery. Around the woman I wrote out mean comments that may drive a person to want surgery. I chose to create this specific work because it makes me think of mean comments people get on social media that make people feel insecure enough to get surgery. When I was creating this I had insecurity and anxiety in mind.

For materials, I used sharpie and colored pencil. I used colored pencil as a material because I thought it would be a good way to add good natural color to the womans face. I used a variety of techniques and methods including: shading and crosshatching. While creating this work, I paid close attention to feelings by showing insecurity through my wording. I wanted my artwork to look sort of like graffiti and I did that by adding wording to the background.

I like the way you can see the message clearly. However, I struggled making the words look good. If I created another work like this I may do it on colored paper. My work shows that I learned to convey emotion through art.