Midterm

For my midterm I wanted my self portrait to be something that can represent my interests for the most part. For the painting in the back I wanted to go for something with a creepy vibe using eyes and a lot of driving of the character in the back but use a very bright and warm color palette to reflect my personality a bit. I see myself as being someone who is energetic at times and always wanting to do something or go somewhere and I felt that the bright color palette would help reflect that energetic feeling. The dripping and eyes around the main painting and the side paintings give off a more dark mood and feel to it which represents my interest into dark things like horror and gore and such but I use a lot of soft colors within it to show that along with those types of interests I do like soft and bright stuff. I drew some inspiration from Mickalene Thomas from how she uses rhinestones in her work as craft tools to make her works pop out and instead decided to use glitter, googly eyes, and legos as tools to use within my art, I like the use of glitter in it because I like the sparkle it gives off and it adds a lot to the paintings. The piece with the legos represents how I view life, its unexpected and always changing but you have the power to change it just as much as you have the power to move the legos and change.