Reflection

If you could do one of the projects again, which one would it be and why?
If I could do one of the projects that we did in class again, in would be the self portrait, because I loved working with color. Color is my favorite aspect of art. You can do so much with different colors, such as expressing emotion and illustrating the passing of time and light. I also would take more time and pay more attention to details and colors.


Of all the artists you've researched, which one do you think is most interesting?
The artist that I think is most interesting is Mary Cassatt. I chose her painting Elsie in A Blue Chair for my portraits blog because I thought that the way she painted the expression in the little girl's face was interesting and different. I thought that it was fascinating how she mainly painted women and children, and focused so carefully on how they were feeling while she was painting them. You can tell from her paintings that she had some kind of connection with the subject of her paintings. All of her portraits are slightly different from "normal" portraits. The people in them are doing other things, or just thinking, but none of them are just sitting and having their portrait done.