Project1_Renaja_Hinton-Butler

Part 1

A few artist that really grabbed my attention shared a few of the same topic and aesthetic traits that I want to portray in my own work and whose work I feel incredibly inspired by. My first artist I'd like to mention is Evilsabeth Schmitz-Garcia. Her work is classified as portraits and is very focused on mental illness and what that looks like through an artistic lens which I enjoy. I really like darker art about serious and hard hitting subjects. Another Artist I'd like to mention is Giang Nguyen Hoang's work. I really like how they take X-ray scans of the human body and add foreign objects to them like flowers and yarn. I enjoy the distinguished and distorted look each piece has.

Part 2

Project 1:

For this project I wanted to use a self portrait where I both express things I like but use a very abstract landscape as the background using a collage technique. I wanted to create texture and have certain elements more bold or transparent then others. I'm overall very happy with how it turned out.