(SW4)+Self+Portrait

Studio Work # 4 **Self Protrait**

**Media:** Paint on paper(Screen Printing), **Size:** 21.0 × 29.7cm, **Month of completion:** February 2012

**Description:** This is a print of me smiling with the wind blowing my hair. The process that i used was screen printing just like Andy Wahol's favorite way of art. My coloring plan was to have the backgound colored with warm colors and the face colored in a cool color, just like the pervious project's coloring plan. I wanted all the colors I am using to be fauve colors and it acturing looked very nice. The blue is popping out of the orange and yellow because of how viberant the colors are.

**Analysis:** **What were the artistic and/or cultural influences for this project?** **Who/what influenced either the composition and/or the style.** The artist that i was influenced by was Andy Warhol. This artist was an imprtant figure in the Pop Art Movement which presented a challenge to traditions of fine arts by including imagery frompopular culture such as advertising, new, etc. Warhol was known for his famous prints of Marilyn Monroe. Those prints are amazingly nice that i develpoped my final peice by it. That print was done in so many clors that i printed my self on many colors of paper and the best one was with the yellow paper because it made the whole print so bright.

**What materials/media/processes did you use and or experiment with, and how?** I experimented Andy Warhol's transfering techniques which was silk screening, to transfer my image onto the a piece of paper. The silk screening process involved screen paint, a sqeegee, the screen itself, and paper. The paint i used were low viscosity paint that wasn't fabric paint. I created a trial by the fabric paint and it blocked the silk and it didnt let the paint go though it again untill it got washed. The squeegee was used to spread the paint in one sweep over the silk. It had to be on a 45 degree angel and we had to press hard when pressing on the ink to let it go through the silk. The screen was created from wood and silk and it was what trasferred the paint to the paper. I used so many colors of paper, trying to immitate Warhol's idea and the best one was the one with the yellow paper.

**How do you think you have responded to advice and criticism during this project (and during the term), both from fellow students and the teacher. Did you actively seek advice? If so, was it useful?** My teacher helped me a lot when creating this final piece. At the begining, i had no time to make that print in class so she made a workshop friday for who ever wants to come to finish his work and i came on friday February 10 2012. I really didn't know how the screen printing process worked untill my teacher physically explined how to do it. After the trial she have done with me, I knew very well how to use the yellow vinyl and everything in that process. I also explained and helped another friend who was using the same technique. I actively used my teacher's advice that was very useful and that led to that final piece.

**Clearly explain the weaknesses/areas for improvement -** There are two thing that i was weak in and they are bothering me so much. The space between me and the sky. They should both be printed together with no space in between. I tried getting them closer by my eyes, but i think what i should of done was to use a ruler and make lines on the news paper underneath the printing paper so that when i put it back, the lines and the paper wouldbe in the same postion. And the other thing that i could of not make it was the finger prints with the paint on the right. My hands werent clean and i held the paper with paint on my hands. The print would of been perfectly done without these two mistakes.

**Clearly explain the strengths of the piece –** Things that i am very sattissfied by, in this print is that every single thing i cut in the yellow vinyl, got printed well without any white spaces in between. And also that print looks alot like me and it looks like a girl thats smiling. Smiling is a facial expression, therefore that print is with my theme series. I really like this print because of the fauve colors that i used and also having warm colors in the backgroung and a warm color in the main person is very intesting in that print.

**What could you take through to the next project and develop further? This could be anything, from a technique to an idea, not necessarily just the theme.** I want to still work with using fauve colors like i have been using in most of my work now. I want to used inrealistc colors in the protraits i make. I have been drawing my self for the past semester. I think i will still draw my self in the next project but n thefollowing one, i start painting different people. Something that i will change from that project to the studio work 5 is the media. I have been using the colored pencils and the print making techniques. Now is the time to change the media and use acryilic in the next project.

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