This is a self portrait believe it or not. I did this painting in about two hours. The inspiration would be myself. As I am reflecting on who I am I wanted a painting to show who I was. I always paint nature, but I wanted to paint something that meant something to someone. I wanted to show me. My hair shows all that makes up who I am. The colors and creativity, certain things that are important, and certain things that have made me who I am. When I go through life day by day I see things in colors. Like every person has a certain color and all my feelings have a color. Most of those colors are shown here in my hair.
That's the inspiration, now to how I did the painting. The background was done first. I mixed acrylic paint with water to make it thinner and to make it splatter better, and also run. I then mixed a color that looked like my skin tone that is under the figure, then I added all the colors of the hair. It was painting in 5 sections each their own color and then slowly it all mixed. Last I painted my face black. I painted my face black to show that I wasn't the focus. That the focus was on my hair, my world.
I hope you like it!
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