Self-portrait

     I took painting and drawing class last for five semesters. I focus at Drawing and Painting. I was always using oil paint. I take Mixed Media class in this semester. I looked forward to this class when I register last summer. I am an international student. I transferred at University of Texas at Dallas this semester. I do not have friend and everything not familiar to me. This is my self portrait with address my personalities and situations.

                          Self-Portrait 23.5inch by 23.5inch Mixed media on wood.

     This is my portrait. This is my first Mixed Media work, so I wanted to try variety materials. This project have to had with using letters. I expressed my whimsical, colorful style in a variety of media including wood, acrylic paint, magazine, carving, stone, and colorful vinyls. My work’s face has two colors. One is yellow-orange and the other is black. I am sometimes happy and sometimes sad. Living in abroad is hard, sometimes I feel really lonely, but I have new experiences and learning other cultures. So I made two different colors on her face such as two different feelings. I want to express my two personalities and my situations. I put on large letter ‘go’ on the top of right side. It means I can go anywhere. No afraid!
I miss my family and friend, so I used stone with acrylic paint and I wrote their names. Her hair has three different colors and it reach to the upside because it means people has past, present, and future. There are important to me, so I made her hair reached upside.
    
     This work made earlier this fall semester, so I wanted to express, I can do anything. I want to say to me. “Yuni, Being Brave!” I really like colors, so I make art about color. I study color to learn about life and delight. Color theory is often used in my work in portraying growth and change. Color is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans. I tried to do pictorial structure, spatial tensions and color relationships.
I had really enjoyed time with using new medium on my mixed media self-portrait also I enjoyed expressions and personalities into my work.