Achromatic Self Portrait- a self portrait using whites, grey, and black. first paint a grey background, then start studying your face in a mirror and start drawing the outlines of the shapes on your face. Saving the details for later so there is no wasted time. This was actually weirdly easy for me to finish quickly despite being a self portrait. The use of these colors helped me be so efficient because creating facial shadows and depth is easier with these colors to me. Also I expected this to make me insecure but it did not. Do not paint anything without looking in the mirror because then the quality of your portrait goes down as it is less accurate.
Cubistic Self Portrait: drawing five thumbnails in my sketchbook, about the size
of 3” x 4,” to decide on the compositions of my painting after studying cubism from amazing artists like Picasso, Braque, and Gris and their art strategies surrounding the style. For me I was thinking about stained glass and how geometric the shapes were that sometimes formed organic ones in a picture. The stained glass representing my hair and then the inhuman cubistic shape of my head and chest with some shadowing to still create some life and dimension. I really like cool colors so this was my primary focus and my favorite warm color is probably orange so I used this as the split complementary to highlight specific areas in order to direct the viewers eyes on and off the canvas for fun.
Admiration Portrait: I chose the Artist Elizabeth Peyton to emulate because I like how colors pop out and feel so strong in her paintings. Its the contrasts in color that make me so overtly intrigued. This was also pretty fun because I can tell Elizabeth Peyton really likes using the color Burnt Sienna in hair, which is similar to my hair color right now. She also has heavy brush strokes that leave an impression and I do that too sometimes. I changed a lot of the color schemes within my face to match her usual style ( really pale people), bright red lips, and I noticed a lot of blue eyes in her work so I changed my eye color to better match her. In the painting I mainly took inspiration from there were purple shadows in the face, so I also recreated that to create some shadowing in my face. She really likes to hide the shadow that connects the nose to the mouth in every portrait and this is a detail I added.
