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This project is still a very much work in progress. Coach Hall taught me how to properly make skin tones, so I just have to now develop the layers of paint and remember to carve them in at the same time which I forgot to do last class! I will most likely end up taking it home this weekend and working on it.
I’ve started working on the painting aspect of it! The grid took me more than and hour, and u fortunately the sketch was tough because I didn’t really know how to exactly depict the nose, lips and eyes, so I left it up to when I’m painting. It is SO much harder than I thought and I’m struggling so much, but hopefully it all comes together.
I took some pictures of my Bouji, and I've decided that I'm going to use this picture as the basis of my first piece that is going to take the perspective of his old age and transform it onto a canvas using my layers with oil paint and a palette knife. I'm excited to see how this will look with paint, as I've only ever done portraits with charcoal.
In classic Shreya fashion, I am changing my ideas completely from my fantastic four project. I haven't fully worked out either of my big pieces yet, but I have been travelling and only landed in India yesterday. I've worked on some preliminary sketches in my sketchbook, but I think I'm going to make full fledged thumbnails before posting them so that they are more definitive ideas. For my heart piece, I want to specifically focus on paint and charcoal for materials and I would like to create landscapes or portraits. I've seen portraits done on newspapers with the face done in charcoal and then paint work done around it. I think it would be interesting to create a tree that symbolizes or looks like the tree of life (possibly the trees that you see in Africa) and then work with paint around it. For the head piece, I'm thinking of doing a portrait of my great grandfather who is at 98 years of age. Then, I would like to show how the experiences of his life transformed him:
- playing his first cricket match - marrying his wife - living through India's independence and the Partition war - have kids - ... and so on I'm thinking of doing a portrait in paint with palette knife, or charcoal. Then, I might use ultra thin tissue paper tracing paper to sketch out these experiences and overlap them on the real portrait.
Final Product: (not finished)
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