For this final piece I didn’t want to do a large piece, doing larger pieces are not my style and I find my work is not as detailed on a larger scale and I struggle widely with that. Therefore I worked with A4 , I wanted to incorporate all the different elements I have learned throughout my experimental and just make it an experimental on it’s own. I’ve enjoyed doing my own attempts of trail and error and I didn’t want to pressure myself for everything to look perfect and realistic as it simply isn’t me and I tend to put myself down if it isn’t real and art shouldn’t feel like that. I loved doing this assignment I liked doing my own style scruffy just having fun and taking inspiration from my original artists, I took a lot of inspiration from my artist research in using different medias and having a texture background, I love having a rough texture to draw on it made it more inventive and interesting therefore I used this in my final piece.
Below is a picture of my result:

I’ve spoken throughout about working with mixed media so I came back into this final piece with a textured background, I used a thick white paint to base off then layer up different coloured water colours and went to town with my biro on creating this portrait, based off an internet photo due to COVID. I loved it, just creating marks and being scruffy yet adding tone and mark makings throughout, I added different coloured water colours to show the elements of the face and created different marks. I feel like with a little more time I would have been able to create a larger piece with more elements yet due to COVID I have been having an increased work load in my job I’ve been working more than 40 hours and it’s been incredibly difficult to juggle the two as art is so time consuming as well, I am working on getting a better time schedule but its taken many tears to get here and to finally finish, I’ve tried the best I could with my time and worked as hard as I could with all the pressure at the moment. I am happy with my outcome, it isn’t my best best but it’s what I managed within this messed up world right now so I’m not going to put myself down. I like the mixed media it really made me enjoy my work and smile whilst creating it, it was messy my hands got messy and it was fun! The detail throughout was interesting and I liked looking at portraits in a different light.
All in all I am happy with my final piece and I took elements from the different mixed media artists I looked into earlier with the bold colours and scruffy lines throughout, I think I created a good detailed piece and all in all I am pleased throughout with myself for managing to finish this assignment. I am going to work harder with my time in the next courses and try my best to get everything in on time and quicker even.