Tryptic
Who I am, What causes me to be who I am and What I want to be...
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Artist Inspiration:
My artist inspiration for this project was Claude Monet and the impressionist movement. When painting Monet would paint with few short strokes and allowing the view to blend the colors in their minds. He does those small strokes and blends them in softly into his paintings. The reason I picked Monet was for that reason, I love how he blends the colors and how he uses those stroke to create texture in his art work. Why I took inspiration was exactly that and involved it in my background of each canvas. I would make a bit longer strokes and gently blend it together to add the same texture as Monet does in his art work.
Planning:
For the first sketches I wanted to demonstrate what I really am as a person. I found myself reflecting that I'm a person who hate speaking do to being afraid to be judge, a person who is self conscious and a person who generally over thinks everything. I found out that all that is from me listening to what others, society, and social media says about the ideal female body. The last sketch is me just wanting to be happy and generally love myself for who I am.
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The first canvas was meant to represent me looking in the mirror and just pointing out all of my insecurities.The second canvas was meant to represent the people that surround me and keep me positive and the last canvas was meant to represent me breaking the mirror representing me being happy with who I am and not worrying about my insecurities. |
Process:
- First like every project I research a artist inspiration or art movement I wanted to base by art on
- After finding a art movement to base my art on I started my sketching process
- I then started to build my canvases (down below you can see this process in picture 1-3)
- After building my canvas I gessoed it after letting it dry I started to paint my background (down below you can see this process in picture 4-6)
- When the background was done and dry I projected my sketches to my canvases
- Then I started just started painting
Critique:
The similarities I see in both my art work and Monet's art work is the technique of the brush strokes to create texture in the painting. Although my brush strokes were a bit larger than Monet's. I also feel like the blending of the hues in my background is pretty similar to Monet and his piece in general. The only difference I see what the painting represent as well as how I only incorporated his techniques on my background.
Experimentation:
Something I experimented with was trying to find the right skin tone to add to my painting. Finding my right shade was hard understanding that when I would add the paint to the canvas it would dry to be darker than how it seemed. I found myself adding more and more white and switching paint to my arm waiting for it to dry to find a close shade.
Reflection:
This piece was a really hard piece, I really struggled to find who I am, and what I want to become. In this piece I really needed to find who I am and really dig deeper and also find away to represent everything I was feeling to the canvas. I honestly feel like for some artist it's really difficult to put all that emotion into their art work, I had to get pass that. Struggles I had throughout my work was also to get my skin tone I had to use a lot of white due to the skin colors being too dark. Due to me researching how to do skin tones and assuring that I get a close skin tone I found in a website that I looked at that said that a color that you mix might end up drying darker than it seems. In my experimentation you can see how I swatched on my hand to assure that the color did not end up drying darker than before. For my artist inspiration I consider that I did a pretty good job showing my similarities in my works. I feel like when I look at my work I can say that my work is similar to Monet by the way my background and his artworks are similar and using a pretty similar technique and brush strokes.
ACT Connections:
1: As said in my reflections and in my critique you can noticeably see that I based my backgrounds to Monet's painting style.
2: The overall approach was just to inform the reader of Monet's techniques and brush strokes.
3: The general conclusion that I came upon my artist inspiration was that the way he did his brush strokes were every interesting to try to mimic as well as the blending techniques for the colors I was using.
4:The central idea or theme of my work is generally to represent who I am, and how social media has a great impact on how I see myself as well as how the ultimate goal for me is to just accept myself for how I look and not worry about others opinion as much.
5: The general conclusion I came across was that Monet and the movement he was apart of is something that really bring interest to me and hope to incorporate more of him and the movement to future art works.
2: The overall approach was just to inform the reader of Monet's techniques and brush strokes.
3: The general conclusion that I came upon my artist inspiration was that the way he did his brush strokes were every interesting to try to mimic as well as the blending techniques for the colors I was using.
4:The central idea or theme of my work is generally to represent who I am, and how social media has a great impact on how I see myself as well as how the ultimate goal for me is to just accept myself for how I look and not worry about others opinion as much.
5: The general conclusion I came across was that Monet and the movement he was apart of is something that really bring interest to me and hope to incorporate more of him and the movement to future art works.