Summer Project

To ease us back into uni life we were given a 2 part summer project based on self portraits and expression. Part one was to use 7 different expressions; Fear, anger, happiness, disgust, contempt, sadness & surprise to create 7 self portraits using a different medium for each one.

I used the following photographs of myself as a point of reference to help me get started:

My 7 self portraits:

                                                      

                                                  Surprise- Acrylic on canvas board. 

Contempt- Black ink on textured paper.

Disgust- 3D relief using plaster strips and then painted.

Anger- Lino print on red paper with black ink.

Original lino cutting looks more angry then final result!

Happiness- Embroidery left on embroidery hoop.

Sadness-Watercolour.

Fear- White chalk pastel on black paper (my personal favorite!)

The second part of the project was, on an A1 piece of paper, to draw yourself in a dynamic pose to reflect one of the expressions. I chose Fear, using a photograph shot from above.