Female identity can vary; and the way female can vary through different aspects in the world is an extremely interesting thing to explore.
As a young female person transitioning into the working world, exploring how women are perceived outside of high school would be an intriguing aspect to explore. Every person …show more content…
If I were to use oil pastels, I would use the watercolour to do the basis of the work, then use the chalk pastels to draw on the detailing of the portrait. If I were to choose oil pastels, I would use layers of chalk pastels and use terps to smudge the bottom layers of the painting, and then add the detailing with the oil pastels without the terps on top of the layer. I wanted to show the detail on top of the basis layer because I feel that it depicts my subject of my theme best. For each of my pieces I would take an original photo and then draw that on paper. Before using the watercolour or oil pastels I would use pencil as and outline of what I want to do with the work. For the oil pastels I was inspired by Connie Chadwell who does many portraits of women in oil pastel, and the detailing in her work is an aspect I would love to show in my work. For watercolour, the comic book artist, Alex Maleev, who is famous for doing many portraits of superheroes, inspired me by the way his detailing on his watercolours were shown by his pencil detailing, and how the pencil and watercolour contrasted together so well. With my work, I would use less colouring in the watercolour and replace the pencil with the chalk pastel, so it would add more colours in contrast to less colour in the