Untraditional Portrait

 

1. Who did you choose to do a portrait of? Why did you choose that person?

I had to choose a family member to do a portrait of, and the only person who let me was my brother, John.

2. When brainstorming about this project how did you decide what would be the best materials to use to create it? Explain how your material choice impacted the look of your piece. Why was this so important. Explain.
We were not allowed to use paint. So, when listing the materials that I could use for this project, I decided to pick a medium that would be textutral. Honestly, I wanted to pick something that was not costly. My other ideas were cereal, melted wax, using pictures of that person to create one big picture of them, etc. One of my classmates had already choosen wax, and cereal was boring, and using mini- pictures was too challenging. Then, I thought about cakes and how I've seen pictures of people made of icing on the cake. Icing was in my budget, and it allowed me to incorporate a textural element.

3. Describe the risks you took or that were involved in creating the project. What were the challenges you faced?
I challenged myself by only buying red, blue, and yellow so that I could make my own colors and have every part of the face different from the rest. After coming up with so many colors it was hard to create new ones. Also, I wanted to have a color that represented lights, and a different color to represent darks, so that this way I could have value even though I was not using any black or white.

4. How did your choices impact the look and feel of the piece? Did your choice of materials have any connection with the person you chose to represent?
The choices I made to impact the feel of the piece, such as using bright colors and all of them different, gave it a fun and bright look. My subject was an old picture of my brother when he was about five to six years old, so the colors that I used in my piece gave it a youthful feel as well. The materials I used did not have any direct connection with John.