This is my first self portrait. I am not sure how much different it is, but I know that it is different in material and concept. Although I have never been afraid to experiment with shapes shading. I don't think I really had a grasp of negative and positive space and shading. I also didn't really have a clear grasp on perspectives.
I chose a traditional 3 point perspective landscape with a a non traditional abstract twist. I have become a tree. Basically the tree of my life and what surrounds me are the leaves of my life, representing the years of my life both good and bad. I chose to use mostly positive space, with some aspects like the sky representing a negative space background. The shading of the tree is dark and has textured lines which create the bark to look more life like. I did this because I wanted it to stand out among the landscape background. The tree is in the foreground, with the mountains in the back as middle ground and also provide a vanishing point. The sky of course is the background.
Comparing it with my first self portrait it is somewhat different, in that I would have never felt confident enough to place my self image within the picture before. But after taking this course I have learned that this is an expression of art. My art and art can be anything an artist choses it to be, "it is all in the eyes of the beholder."
This has definitely been a challanging class and I have certainly learned a lot about art as well as my abilities to draw and understand art.
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