Self Portrait Post

 Charles Willson Peale - an innovator in art and in American Museums. He was ahead of his time in many ways and when this assignment was posted I wanted to do something like this for the project....I don't think I would have gotten away with it 

Drawing Hands by M.C. Escher - I love this piece but I don't draw this well...so I looked for something else 

And found this and while I'd love to do something like this - I don't think Artpark would be amused.

One of the things I came up with was this - I call it Peale meets Escher and it's silhouettes on white. But its not really what I wanted. so I played with some more ideas and came up with this:

I call it Starfish, Snow and Stars - since I am interested in all three lately.  Still not what I wanted so I decided to try one more
And that I will submit to the prof privately.
Here then is the reflection:


1. Why did you select the inspiration pieces? 
Because I liked them
2. Why did you select the media to create your self-portrait?
drawing -graphite and paper - because I like working in those
3. What challenges did you face in creating your self-portrait and how did you overcome them?
I hate having my photo taken and I don't like having to do pictures of myself.  Talked to the teacher about it.
4. How does this piece represent you? It's a drawing of me from memory
5. What elements and principles of art did you apply in this work? shape, line, mass, color, space, form, value
6. Did you enjoy working on this project? not really. I would have preferred to be able to follow my own imagination and not need inspiration pieces. I could have done so much if I were not tied to  "needing" those piece. 
7. What do you think of your final artwork?  I actually like it.  I would have preferred that you give us this at mid term and let us work on it for that length of time - I could have had some real fun.