I choose media I knew I was experienced with and when I mixed them together in this peice I think they complemented each other very very well. The media that was in my peice included ink, pastel, and charcoal, all of which I feel safe with (not much color cept in the ink of course). My peice is something that I usually dont do, most of my art is more precise and this is more concept drenched. I used the colors to attract the veiwer with the splatters is interests the person making them want to look closer. Although the colors are attractive I dimmed them down a bit making me, the white source the focal point of the peice. This creates a great emphasive on the actual self-portrait of me, and the tree behind me. The tree is symbolic to nature, and the colors and ink symbolic to urban, and how I'm inbetween them. How I deeply enjoy both and how both ar part of who I am, althoug I lean more towards the nature side.
Try to lighten or brighten your photo of this piece. I love the idea of it and the experimentation that you did with the background. I wish the background was more united to the tree and figure. It also needs to look more like you. More rendering of the subject and tree and maybe consider making the subject larger or more dominant in some way.
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