(SW11)+Basic+Life+Expressions

Studio Work # 11 **Basic Life Expressions** **Media:** Acrylic on Canvas, **Size:** x, **Month of completion:** October 2012

**Description:** This is a trip-tic final project representing the facial expressions and the feelings through the use of color in the background and through the position and the look of the face features. The facial expressions that i created was sadness, happiness, and anger. I added white to the blue background to create a depression mood. The white and blue looks like the ocean which shows sadness and loneliness. In the anger painting, i added black to the red to show roughness of the mood. The black and red showed how strong the anger of the kid is. And in the happiness painting, i used a lot of yellow to have a very bright color that represents happiness.

**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 Pablo Picasso because he used the color "blue" in his blue period which was during 1901- 1904. During this period Picasso was so depressed that he stared using blue in his painting showing the sadness and the depression through his use of colors. I have made portraits of my brother depressed with a blue background showing how depressed he is in the painting. I did the same with the colors red and yellow. With a red background i painted my brother angry and with a yellow background i painted my brother very happy.

**What materials/media/processes did you use and or experiment with, and how?** I used acrylic to paint on canvas. Acrylic helped me create the shades, tints, and tones in this painting. Motion was created when i created a texture at the background and when also adding another color to the main color in the background like the red and black and also the white and blue. The shades and tints in the face weren't blended at all which makes the painting the colors special.

**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?** When i introduced my idea to the teacher and the fellow students, she encouraged me to make three projects in one project because they would easily send the idea of to the views and it actually worked.

**Clearly explain the weaknesses/areas for improvement -** Something that i wasn't successful in the sadness painting is the kid's mouth; it doesn't look real at all. The colors of the faces in the three paintings wasn't blended at all which makes the painting look unprofessional but at the same time it makes it special.

**Clearly explain the strengths of the piece –** Those paintings are very successful because anyone who sees them would directly get the idea of them. I really like how the facial expressions are very obvious and how the background colors affect the viewers' mood. The person i drew in those paintings was my brother and i really like how the paintings came out to look exactly like him.

**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.** Since i used some hand body language in the angry painting, i am willing to concentrate on the body language rather than the faces itself. I am also willing to change the media i was using for the past year and start using oil paint. I have never used oil paint so the next project will be the first project that i'll be using oil paint in.