Started drawing!

I have now started drawing my face, and I am actually finished with it. The only feature I need to redo, is the nose as I feel it is too big. Maybe I have a big nose already, so it is supposed to be like that. What I want to do next, hopefully before the next lesson, is to finish the drawing completely, by also adding the body, and the background so that I am able to transfer it onto the one I will paint. This is what I want the outcome to look like (or not completely like this, but the idea) :





















And here is what my work is currently at. I think it actually looks a lot like me, Im surprised :)






Also, as Frida Kahlo did, I want to include some sort of necklace around my neck with a feature that describes me. Maybe an elephant, because I like elephants, or the Om sign as a part of my culture. If I have a necklace with the Om sign, I want to change the right half of the background to something else. Maybe I decide to make the whole background colourful and add small musical notes on it. This is something to decide afterwards.







- Anisha

Sketches

Here are some pictures of my sketches.. Not really neat, and some of them really ugly actually, but they are sketches after all:

 

- Anisha

Today's lesson

I have now done several sketches of how I want my painting to look like, and I have also finished doing the gridlines on my A3 paper. This below is the picture I decided to paint, but I have only put gridlines 1 cm squared accoss the face, as that is what I want to concentrate on. I can include the hair and possibly my body after a while.




Around my face I will paint the things that I like and what is really me, but that will be decided when the face is finished. As the painting Frida Kahlo painted of herself, I would like to include a necklace of something that I like, for eg. an elephant.

- Anisha

Symbolic Self Portrait - First Unit in Grade 10

Today, we started on a new unit called Symbolic Self-Portrait with the unit question: Who am I?
In this unit we have to create a painting of ourselves, expressing who we are, or how we see ourselves using symbols. This unit can be related to two earlier units; the "icon" unit, as we are trying to create an image of a real person, and the "key to painting" unit, as we will apply paint to our creation.
We started to look through artists and their symbolic self portraits to get some inspiration, as well as portraits from pervious students at IST. In addition to this, we started to write down ideas of our own painting.

Who am I?

I asked my classmates for ideas. What is really me? I made a list in my book and started to do sketches from this.
- Indian
- Singing
- Braid
- Flowery patterns (Always wear them)
- Big hair
- Nails
- Defining eyebrows
- Indian Goddess ( aww :D)
- Happy
- Elephant (I love elephants)

I have not yet found my final idea, but I would love to include things like elephant, flowery patterns and something with singing, as I know that this is me.

- Anisha