This project is about a self-portrait. The process of creating a self-portrait drawing requires patience, focus, and attention to detail. It starts with setting up a mirror in front of us to use as a reference. Then, we begin to draw our faces by paying attention to shapes instead of outlining the face.
In the first part of the project, we draw our self-portrait in black and white color. The second part involves the cubism technique. And the last part is the admiration self-portrait which we have to choose an artist and draw the self-portrait in her/his style.
I. Achromatic Self-Portrait
II. Cubistic Self-Portrait
III. Admiration Self-Portrait
For my admiration project, I choose Amy Sherald. She was born in Columbus, Georgia 1973, and now based in New York City, is an African-American painter. She graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a Bachelor’s degree in Painting in 1977. She then moved to Baltimore and received her Master’s degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004. In 2016, Sherald became the first African-American woman to win Qatwin Boocher Portrait competition Prize for her painting entitled ”Miss Everything”. The following year, she and Kehinde Wiley were selected to create official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, with Wiley painting the portrait of Barack Obama and Sherald painting the portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama. Her paintings have lots of emotions despite their simplicity. She is also known for using grayscale to color skin in her portraits as a way to challenge the concept of color as a marker of race. She creates a very beautiful combination by using analogous and split complementary colors that attract the viewer’s eye.
