Artist statement for our Color project

The six project sketchs 

Halfway photo

Self portrait with monkeys by Frida Kahlo 

Finished project 

The artwork I based my project off of was "Self Portait with Monkey's" by Frida Kahlo.

I chose to recreate this painting because it looked like it would be the easiest to do out of all the other options I picked. This artwork symbolizes the love for art I have in my life. I feel like the colors that I used show an emotion of calmness. When I look at the colors that I used I feel very relaxed and at peace. I decided to change the color choice because I wanted to make it completely my own interpretation of Frida Kalhos work. For majority of my painting I used a monochromatic color sceme. For a small portion of it I used an analogous color sceme and a bit of a primary color scheme on some of the plants. To make this project my own I changed the art style and the materials used to create it. The art style that I used to create this piece of art is manga art. I tried to make the people in my picture look like the people in manga. The materials I used to recreate this painting were pencil, white paint, water colors, a canvas, and an outlining pen. The steps I took to create my project were sketching, water coloring, outlining and then adding the white paint to highlight the eyes at the end. I think sketching took me the longest time because I kept erasing what I had drawn. I wanted it to look perfect so I kept erasing it until I got it right. This project took a little longer to complete. I anticipated that I would be done before the due date, but even though I didn't finish it completely on time I still worked really hard and hope that my artwork turned out ok. I think the over all picture turned out exactly as I wanted it too and I'm happy that I was able to work on this project because it helped me practice my drawing and painting skills.