☆.｡.:*Art Portfolio.｡.:*☆

I watch a ton of artists videos on youtube to get inspired and to look at different ways I can improve my art outside of class. There's one artist who I always seem to be hooked on watching, and her youtube name is "DrawingWiffWaffles"but her real name is Rin. I really enjoy her art because of how creative it is, I look at her as a sort of role model because I want to be able to work so I can do more things that I really love doing. I like how she identifies that doing things like developing a style or exploring a new medium is not an easy thing. I love her art style and how quirky and fun it is.     

Kehinde Wiley is a New York City-based portrait painter who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of African-Americans. He was born in February of 1977. I really enjoy the vibrancy of his art, it’s very visually pleasing to look at. I like how the backgrounds of each piece flows in front of the model making it seem like they are part of the background. The models Kehinde chooses are really powerful in appearance, the stand out against the background and the poses they are in are extremely eye catching and cool. The pieces are just extremely empowering to look at.           

Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo was a mexican artist who worked in self portraits. Her work was inspired by  the nature and artifacts of mexico. She developed a style to explore questions of identity, gender, class and race surrounding mexican society. She was very involved in politics,  in 1927 she joined the Mexican Communist Party, where she would meet a fellow artist and her future husband. Vincent.Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh  was a  Dutch post impressionist painted born in  1853. His work consisted of many things like, still life’s, portraits, landscapes  and self portraits. Van Gogh was considered a failure in lifetime and was often looked at as a ad man because of his physcotic our breaks and mental state. He worked in periods of color, and his work was impulsive and dramatic. Van Gogh later died from suicide at  age 37 due to his mental state and poverty. Egon Schiele Egon Schiele was an austrian painter. His work often surrounded the human f...