Today I am here to show you a quick piece that I have done for my CyberArts art class. For this assignment we were asked to pick two parts of our personality and put them in a unified piece by without just simply splitting the page in half.
I chose to paint my portrait because I felt that it would do the most justice to my idea. I wanted to make my portrait very abstract and acrylic paint would be the easiest and the quickest. I used a variety of brushes in different sizes and used warm, cool and neutral colours.
Basically, my piece shows a blurred out hand reaching towards a fuzzy, undefined destination which is located at the end of a pathway. However, you do not know what that destination is; you can take a hint, but you don't really know.
For this piece I decided two use the confused and determined side of me.
I'm confused because this is my last year in high school and its the time where I should be figuring out what I want to do with my life. Right now, the future seems kind of 'blurry' to me. I don't know know what to do and that's what I wanted to represent in my portrait. To make my portrait seem 'confusing' or 'vague' I made my background very abstract; it is made up of expressionistic brushstrokes with a lot of dabbing and blending.
I am determined because although I don't know what the future has in store for me, I still want to get it; to succeed. The hand and the pathway in the portrait are the only recognizable subjects even though they are also quite blurred. This represents the fact that I want to get to my destination even though I do not know what it is; I am reaching towards it. Though again, I am confused whether or not what I am going for is real or worth while.
I am very happy with my piece. I LOVE how I did the background, I think its my favourite part of the whole piece. Especially the colours, the dabbing and the splattering. If I could improve anything about this portrait, I would probably fix the hand, it looks okay but I think I could have painted it better; the proportions need to be fixed.
I hope you liked my peace! Take Care! :D
