Self Portrait

  • Ellen Soderberg
IB Visual Arts Project 1 :
Me
30 x 50cm
Acrylic & Poster paint

Task: produce a piece of art any chosen medium self-portrait topic Inspiration: I thought for a long while about what art meant to me. I didn’t really have a definite answer and I couldn’t think of anything out of the ordinary. Because of the ambiguity of the project objectives I went into desperation-mode to look for inspiration. I got to looking through some torn up old math notebooks that I had turned into sketchbooks, and old papers that I had doodled all over and realised that I could find the most boring and unimaginative texts and turn them into something I wanted to see. I found the beauty in a paper title: “PHOTOSYNTHESIS” it would say, and I’d turn it into a garden of doodles. I consider myself a human colour pallette because I can’t help myself but doodle every second of the day. So I thought I’d paint myself, drawing myself.