Self Reflection; Transformation

going into art class this year i was a bit nervous. The majority of the kids in the class had already been taking art and i was brand new to it. At first i was very shy and was afraid to be wild and bold with my art work. Now going into to the self portraits I'm not so afraid to take risks because i actually like the work I'm doing. I get excited to go to art everyday when before i was nervous and unsure. I've seen myself become so much more creative and confident in myself and my art work. I hope to continue to grow throughout the year and make many wonderful pieces of art !

Self portraits

In class we are working on stylized self portraits of ourselves. We sketched ourselves on a large piece of paper then outlined it with sharpie. Now i am in the process of deciding what custom color i want to use for my big painting. Its such a hard decision because there are so many colors. I really like this project and i am very eager to come to class everyday and work on it. I love the way the portraits look rafter they've been inked and colored in with colored pencils. I like how the painting isn't such a big deal because we are almost destroying our work purposely to make it into something almost scary and haunting.  Above is one of my practice paintings. I decided on a very dark brown to use as my color. I have not worked into it yet with colored pencil. I really enjoy working on this portrait.