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My portrait is called "Food Face" and the reason why I did this was because lately I've been feeling really hungry and ready to eat whole elephant from all this cutting. The medium of my art consisted rice, long noodles, cheese noodles, and cheese (was suppose to be pepperoni). The surface I used was a countertop that in near the kitchen.

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My portrait is called “contrast” i used my work desk which i use every single day as my “paper” as my medium i used a very old and worn out mascara that i never used and had no value to me. that’s when the contrast comes in as I put something that was meaningless to me onto a space that i use everyday and deeply value.

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My piece is titled “nature is awesome” because I think nature is awesome. I love grass. I also love leaves. I used both grass and leaves on a countertop in my backyard to create “nature is awesome”.

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The medium of my art is uncooked fettuccine pasta, oatmeal, bread flour, conchiglie pasta, and rice.  The surface is a granite countertop in my kitchen. It’s supposed to represent the act of having made my art of food in the kitchen. They are also all a type of grain.

The feeling portrayed in the art was what I felt when I found out about this assignment. There’s nowhere better to start than my favorite place in my house, the kitchen. I like cooking the recipes my family has, and because it can be considered a “culinary art”, even though it’s not the best representation of my cooking.

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This portrait is titled “Posh”. I feel as though flowers are often associated with nice gatherings and or posh settings being nice, rich, and put together. I recently was gifted a bouquet of flowers and they are all dropping super low so I thought the perfect way to repurpose them would be in this portrait. A red dress signifying status and pinkish purple lips representing the makeup being worn. hair down and a defined jaw to show that this is how I feel myself would be presented if I had to appear in this type of environment. It is located in my room on a cookie sheet because I felt the silver contrasted the yellow hair nicely and made the red “dress” stand out nicely.

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I titled my final portrait "Nostalgia". I used pages from my favorite book "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy to construct a portrait. I used some of my other favorite books as a background and built this portrait on the desk in my room. I chose pages from "The Road" specifically because I feel the material has multiple meanings. The book itself is about a wandering father-son duo who grieve their past while being forced to carry on. Nostalgia can be like that. I also think that using these book pages is meaningful because the pieces of art that we hold dear can be responsible for who we are. The pages here have both built who I am as a person and served as material for a portrait of myself.

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This is called “Connected.” The surface is wood, a slab from a log. The medium is black paint and I used my finger prints. It is currently in my kitchen.

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This piece is called "Stuck in my Mind", it was made from confetti and a piece of yarn that I found in a box full of decoration objects. The confetti is supposed to show a flower on the head of this person. I wanted it to represent how now days, we spend a lot of time in our own heads. We tend to keep our emotions and thoughts to ourselves, but instead of representing it as a bad thing, I wanted to express it as something that grows and grows like a flower.

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This portrait is named Drink drawer and is made of random things I’ve collected in my drawer namely left over change and  old ribbon from a shirt I had. I’ve been feeling sort of like…junk like I’m old leftovers but even through all that I’m still doing my best and smiling

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this is called stop and i made it out of salt on my kitchen counter and i made it out of salt because i figures this represents the purpose of this artwork best. it was really fun to make.

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Lately, I've been feeling a lot of stress. I don't show it. But, I manage it by staying calm. I've used coffee as my medium because I've been staying up late and drinking coffee to keep me awake to finish assignments.

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I did my portrait in wood chips, to show my thoughts while I am in nature and admiring the earth

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I used nail art to create a face like ghost face , I did this because it's very close to Halloween and wanted to make it look special for the season .

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I used my sister's eyeshadow for the background. For the figure, I used her eyeliner. She allowed me to use her cheek for the drawing.

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Charcoal on my wall

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This is spiky hurt, i made it with a several handfuls of pine needles, dirt, seeds, and sticks. I assembled it on a place because i needed a plate to hold the materials while also providing a lighter contrast.

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I chose to glue down yarn to a piece of fabric to show the way that people can unravel and made the expression sad with the lines I used to emphasize this

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My portrait is called overwhelmed, I made it out of flour on my kitchen counter.

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This is tired, it made with colored pencil shavings, and other pencil residues. It also hold a few plastic, and wooden stick items with a black pipe cleaner to shape the face.

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"Dinner" I used marker on cardboard, the surface on the cardboard is bumpy and very different from paper. I drew it on a pizza box from the pizza we had for dinner that night.

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The medium of this portrait is shredded paper for the hair, tissue paper for the eye brows and eyes, a button for the nose, licorice for the lips, and oil pastels for the structure of the face. The surface is on a canvas, and the location is in my room as that is where I would start my quiet morning.

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i chose to glue down black string onto a recycled paper bag, its currently on my couch

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This was shades of blue spray paint on a water damaged board I found in my garage, and I used acrylic for the red. It is now hanging in the back of my garage.

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My piece is called "Pensive". It was made with coffee and drawn onto a paper towel in my kitchen.

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I did this on my back porch. It is supposed to describe my tired face. I used chalk to draw my self portrait. 

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Hot glue is the medium I used and a mirror is the surface. The location is my bathroom because it where I see my reflection every morning and is a reminder of all the things I am anxious about. I also thought it was fitting that the reflection of my phone is displayed because my phone is the source of a lot of my anxiety.

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I used hot glue and paint to do my portrait. This is at my home.

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( the blue is supposed to be black but I couldn’t find black chalked for the life of me) so the medium is chalk and location is my drive way 

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Surprised
The medium is chalk
The surface is pavement/concrete
The location is my drive way

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Maya Calkins

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Dashaun ortega