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