For my still life I placed together 3 masks to represent my theme of Identity. For my other projects with this theme I had taken a more person approach to Identity, taking aspects of my own life to compare. For this project I wanted to capture the broader theme of identity. The masks represent people covering up their identity, but also having different aspects of their identity that they can put on when they feel like it. To really capture the essence of the masks I decided to paint them. I stretched and gessoed my first canvas. I began by drawing sketches of the masks on scrap paper just to get the shapes right. I then moved to lightly sketching on the canvas. This became a stressful and very frustrating. I decided that I just needed to start to paint. I began by getting a layer of blue on the canvas that would eventually become the fabric that the masks are sitting on. Finally getting pain on the canvas was encouraging. I proceeded to shape the masks with the paint then worked on getting the shading right. I was feeling pretty good about this painting until I started on the third mask (the one on the left). I could not get the color right, or the shading. It was SO frustrating. This mask was very intimidating and made me hesitant to begin. I worked on the other masks, refining the shading and colors. In the end I'm really glad I decided to paint for this project. I hadn't really painted much before and I really liked it. This painting will probably never get finished, but it was a really great starting point for my painting. I learned that I enjoyed painting and that I could do it better than I thought. It helped me learn to face things head on when I had to just jump in to the painting with out a firm outline.
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