Sorry I haven’t been keeping up like some of you guys. I am so bad at remembering to do this stuff! I am also the person who checks their facebook about every 2 months, so you know what I mean. : )
Having said that, let’s go back to project 1, the self portrait. When first given this assignment, I was not at all thrilled. For starters, I cannot draw/paint a picture that actually looks like me to save my life. Second, shocking is not a goal I typically work toward when I paint.
It took quite a while to find inspiration, but when I really started thinking about what I’m around every day (I run the children’s department for Barnes and Noble) and what I want to do in the future, I of course began to think in the context of picture book illustrations. I decided to go with a familiar story and insert myself into the character’s position. I somehow came to the decision to use Alice in Wonderland, or Through the Looking Glass to be more exact, and started gathering sources to create my own composition. Although it still doesn’t quite look like me, and isn’t what I would call shocking (creepy, perhaps), I was happy with the results. This was my first time to create a composition from imagination, and to put my own spin on a familiar image.
