When I went into Art IV for the second time, I was a little worried about redoing all of the projects that I had already done before. Thankfully, after the reflection project, I was told that I didn't need to be doing the same projects twice, for the sake of my portfolio and for my sanity. So when my teacher asked me what kind of project I wanted to do, I naturally picked the project that would stress me out the most. I had this amazing picture that I took of my cousin at the beach, and I've been wanting to paint it for forever, and I finally got the chance. Since acrylic paints are the bane of my existence, choosing oil paints was easy. Not as easy: painting the hands and the mouth. Even though I loved the picture, I chose an idea with my two least favorite parts of the human body to paint: hands and an open, smiling mouth. But nevertheless, I was determined to do it. And do it I did. I am actually incredibly pleased with the result of this painting. It took me was less time than I'd anticipated at first, and I think it's the best portrait I've ever done. Knowing that I did this portrait makes the idea of future ones WAY less intimidating.
If there's one thing that I'm really proud of on this piece, its the emotion I showed in the face, and that NOSE. I usually think that I'm pretty bad at painting noses, but I actually think that the nose in this portrait turned out really great, and I'm super proud of it. It was a little daunting at first to look at the reference picture and attempt to create the same emotion that I feel in that photo. On the day the picture was taken, my cousin was wearing my glasses, which are clearly too big for her, and the joy on her face was obvious. I really wanted to try and capture that in my painting. Since painting mouths has always been something that I sort of dread doing, I was really impressed with myself and how well it ended up turning out, and I think that the mouth was a key aspect of making the emotion really come through in the painting. Another thing that I was super apprehensive about going into this piece was the fact that I had to paint hands. Painting hands is one of my least favorite things to do, but alas, they were a pretty substantial part of this piece. I'm pretty proud of how they ended up turning out, but I know that there is still a lot of room for improvement in the hand-painting department. This is hands-down the best portrait I've ever done. I'm SO impressed with myself. I never expected to make a painting this realistic before and I think I'm still a little bit in shock that I did this. I can't wait to paint more challenging portraits and see what I can do; knowing that I've accomplished this painting has definitely made me feel a lot more confident about portraits in the future.
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