Saturday, 14 October 2017

Self Portrait

My self portrait was a struggle initially, as I find it difficult drawing figurative images.

After speaking to Ben and a couple of my friends, I decided to abandon my attempts at fitting my practice to suit styles it doesn't work with. Therefore, I took key aspects from my personality and combined this to create a more personal outcome, reflected through the colours I use most often.

The pink of my vitiligo, and how I have come to accept this over the past year, which represents the growing in confidence with my work. The green is the growth I am experiencing, and how much I want to explore and develop. The yellow shows my positivity and the optimism I hope to present across my life.

I was hoping to screen print the outcome, but decided to take a break and visit my niece for the day instead, which really helped to increase my positivity about the coming year, and I think it is especially important this year for me to not make more work for myself than I need to.


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