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My Art Portfolio

My IB Visual Art Exhibition

Judging EyesPressureStages Of…The Green-Eyed MonsterFeeling different still the sameLoves me, Loves me notHappy Neve After9 Emotions

“Judging Eyes” was my first piece I made for the exhibition. It is about feeling unconfortable in your own skin. The uncomfortable feeling could be from people watching you, disliking yourself, social standards for beuty or other feelings. I wanted the viewer to feel the uncomfortable feeling I tried to portray in the piece.

For me this piece was about my self confidence and feeling like I always stood out in a bad way making me uncomfortable in my every day life.

My first Ideas
My first Ideas
A test sketch for the final
The finsished sketch
Starting by tracing the outline of the my self image on the projector
Starting shading the body
Shading and adding outlines for eye positions
Starting to add the eyes
Keeping adding eyes and shading the background
The finished piece

“Pressure” is about pressure, stress, depression, whatever emotion the viewer feels when they look at the piece. For me this piece was about the stress and preaaure I felt from school.

My friend modeled for me so i could have areference when I painted. These 3 pictures were for that reason. This is the first one.
My friend modeled for me so i could have areference when I painted. These 3 pictures were for that reason. This is the first one.
The second pose
The second pose
Third picture, and also the final that i used for reference
Third picture, and also the final that i used for reference
This is the first sketch I made for the piece. Made with charcoal on paper.
This is the first sketch I made for the piece. Made with charcoal on paper.
The second itteration I made was paining on paper.
The second itteration I made was paining on paper.
This was the final of my testing on paper. I is charcoal and paint on paper.
This was the final of my testing on paper. I is charcoal and paint on paper.
I tested this method of paint and charcoal on the final media I was goin to use which has a much more shiny finish to paint on so I did this to test if it was going to work.
I tested this method of paint and charcoal on the final media I was goin to use which has a much more shiny finish to paint on so I did this to test if it was going to work.
Me working on the final piece.
Me working on the final piece.
The final piece.
The final piece.
This was how it looked in my exhibition.
This was how it looked in my exhibition.

“Stages of…” is about the 5 stages of grief: Denial, Bargening, Anger, Depression, Acceptance.
I liked the thought of mixing media in this art piece. Mixing two medias that usually dont go together and so I ended up with a watercolor painted flower with embroidered details on it.

This is one of my favourite pieces I made for this exhibition.

My first sketches
A trial
Trying paining and then embroidery
Tried to see how it looked with a white outline
Starting watercoloring
Rose thorns for pleeding
A petunia for anger
Hyacinth for depression
Lilly of the valley for acceptance
After embroidering the pieces
Denial
Pleeding
Anger
Depression
Acceptance
Stages of…
Close up of embroidery

“The green-eyed monster” is about jealousy. “The green-eyed monster” is a way to describe jealousy. Many see the color green as jealousyand so I made that the focus of this piece.

The snake is also a common symbol of jealousy.

4 sketches and ideas for the piece
More detailed sketch of the piece I wanted to make
Tried some with the snake holding a heart
Scale trials
Scale trials
Decided to make it hold onto a person instead
I wanted more struggle to be shown in the piece
Model for the final
Snake trial for the scales
The Green-Eyed Monster

“Feeling different still the same” was about love ans appreciation for others. Each lilly has its own meaning of appreciation and love which is represented throught the text behind each lilly.

Working on the flowers outside sketching
Working on a different flower
The four flowers I made, each with a different meaning
Feeling different still the same

“Loves me, Loves me not” is a piece about the young love we all had. When you pick up a flower and take of the pedals one by one counting, “loves me, loves me not, loves me, loves me not”.

This piece was one I really enjoyed making. I made it with origami flowers I made and then cut out each petal for each flower.

Origami flowers
Laying out the piece
Loves me, Loves me not

“Happy Never After” is about that fairy tale love we hear about when we are young. All the fary tale stories we are read and told from a very young age that in real life very rearly happen.

In life love is more complicated and the fairy tale ending will for most take more than one try. I used books to represent the tales we ar told, the heart is broken up because of these books and on the heart is pictures that are fading of what seems to be fary tale relationships.

First sketch of heart idea
Watercolor sketch
Added line art to watercolor
I had trials with different layout of the books, this is the layou ti chose
Started sketching the heart in pencil
Added watercolor and pictures
Added pictures
Started tearing and making the pictures fade
Another example
Setting up the final pieces
Happy Never After

“9 Emotions” depicts 9 different emotions we all feel. I used only female models to depict these emotions because of the social standard that females are “too emotional”. I wanted to play of this social standard and depict emotions we all feel.

A first sketch inspired by Francis Bacons painting “The Pope”
First trial with balck and white
Tried with color
Colored paper with balck paint
A different painting style
Tried to tear the paper to create more texture. I ended up liking this idea and printed the same pictures for the final and tore them up to create a texture differance.
9 Emotions