I am a daughter. a friend. a student.

I think the main strength of my project was the drawing of my face behind the clutter. Although it does not look exactly like me, it is what makes my project my own. It was the part I worked the hardest on. The pictures, which were meant to represent what, and who is important in my life add a unique twist. Each photo highlights friends, or family, or activities that are meaningful and play a significant role. Without the pictures this would be an ordinary self portrait. It is the bits of color that add more life to the piece, which although is not what I intended turned out to be a metaphor for what adds color to your life.

Visiting artist

This piece is by far my favorite. I love how the artist has the ability to take many different images and subjects and combine them perfectly to make something new. They way the birds head become almost a billowing chimney to the house is very interesting, it takes a really interesting metaphor and expands it into an intriguing image. I marvel at the ornate detail and how each line is seems to be so deliberate. While looking at each piece I definitely wanted to ask the artist how long he takes on each picture?

Reflecting on Self Portrait Project

In our group we each went around sharing our ideas then saying what we were planning to do next. When it was my turn to share, I told my group members about my plans to add more pictures of things that make me who I am and fill it out more by adding color and life. They mentioned that it is looking little bit too square right now. All the pieces are square and the piece as a whole is square. This gave me the idea to cute out most of the white edges around that drag that, I think, drag down the piece and only make it boring. My next step is to get my act together at home and print more pictures in color, and cut out the white, then finally glue it down to a back piece of paper to finish.