Final: Self Portrait

Artist Statement:

My final for my art class was a self portrait. I decided to do mine on a postcard size piece of paper and used acrylic paints as my medium. The subject in the painting is a side profile of myself, while the background is a simple galaxy including hues of blue, purple and pink, with stars speckled throughout. The title of this piece is “Infinite Thoughts.” I named it this because at times, I feel like my mind is always racing and goes on forever, just like the universe. A unique technique that I used was putting a bit of paint on the end of a crumpled paper towel, and stamping it onto the background to give a good galaxy effect. I also used a flat brush and flicked it while it had white paint on the end to create small stars spattered throughout the background. My inspiration for this artwork was my brother. He is a photographer and I love the pictures of the sky and stars he has done. They are some of my favorites. I also feel that I can relate to his artwork. I tried to express a sense of curiousity in my artwork, and hopefully I achieved that. My goals as an artist is to just create more. I really enjoyed this class and getting to be creative everyday, and I need to push myself to do it more often. I also want to do more of what I wanted when creating, and I feel like I did. I don’t prefer to do still lifes and really realistic things, nothing personal I just don’t enjoy them. And with this assignment I was able to add my own ‘flair’ to my piece. While creating this piece, I learned that I am really judgemental of myself. Especially my abilities. I don’t exactly like how it turned out, and wish that I was better, but that takes time, and I need to accept that.