This is my cover for the New Yorker. The one on the right is by the original artist, Tomer Hanuka. Obviously it's animated and digitally produced, which made it really hard to create something similar. For Hauka's cover, he said that the reason purpose behind it was to depict the nostalgic feelings that snow brings. So, in my portrait, I decided to make a red-headed girl staring out at a snowfall that is about to cover a set of mountains. With the watercolors I had, it was really hard to create a diverse set of a colors that reflected the depth of the mountains and differentiated the wooden porch from the brown mountains. But, I was able to make some black-brown mountains, red-brown mountains, and light brown mountains that almost remind me of the colors of the Grand Canyon. I also used a fine point sharpie to outline everything. I thought it would be similar to the black lines used in Hanuka's cover.
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I decided to use the word "warm" for my four letter word because I really enjoy warm weather. Instead of doing it all black and white, I decided to make the letters solid black and then have entirely colorful backgrounds. I thought it would be a good transition. I did water to represent w, autumn to represent a, roots to represent r, and meadow to represent m. I did all of these because I believe they equate to warm weather and they are all part of things that make me happy.
This is my future self portrait. I painted this lotus flower with acrylic paint. I made a gradient in the background and then drew the flower and roots with white charcoal before painting it. I chose to do a lotus flower because I believe that I have not reached my full potential and that someday I will become reborn and I will be new and able to achieve my full potential. I want to transcend into my full self someday.
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