Frondescence

Wednesday, March 2nd
   
      This week I took some time that we had off of school to work on a self portrait with a little spin. This piece is titled "Frondescense" which is a French word describing foliage, or the time when a tree creates leaves and a flower blooms.
     I spent the whole day painting this which was at times tiring, but I didn't have anything else to do. I started off painting the base under my face with a peachy-pink color, then added the flowers on top. When I paint, I tend to not have a plan. This being said, I just sat there in my room thinking of flowers that would look interesting and then added them in different areas as the ideas bloomed (haha).
     My favorite part of this piece is the nose; I was avoiding it until the very end because I wasn't quite sure how to make it look decent. In this case, procrastination worked in my favor! (: The little rose bud paired with the hair as roots tied it all together.
     Another area of confusion I had was the hair. At first, I finished the painting and it was just a bald, floating head. After working on this for about 3 hours straight, I took a little break and when I came back, I realized that the floating head was actually super weird. I turned to my group of close friends and Caleb had the idea of making the roots as hair so creds to him.