Self-Portraits

Tuesday 30 November 2010

Dear Jan Peter,

I am writing you to tell about the paintings we have made in arts class. We made it in Van Gogh style. One happy, and one sad painting. We had about 5 lessons to finish it. It did succeed quite good with some people, but mine didn’t turn out what I wanted it to be. First it looked very nice. But than I had to do the nose, and I failed at that. But I did the best I could.

The first painting is the sad one. I used a sad background. With using red, yellow and black. I used rough brush strokes, and it looks rather good. For the clothing I also used rough brush strokes. In the face I still used rough brush strokes, but less. The clothing is with opposite colours. I did not really succeed in the face. The eyes are too small, and the nose is too big. I also don’t like the colour in the face, its a bit too dark. But I have tried to correct it. But to recorrect it, I did not have enough time.

My second painting is the happy painting, by accident I do not have a photograph of this one. I used rough brush strokes in this one too. For the clothing I also used rough brush strokes. In this face I used very few brush strokes. But at my second one the face looked a bit better, but also my nose was not really nice. I used happy colours in the background. Green, yellow and blue. And in the clothing I use dark colours like red, purple and black. Because I do not have a photograph I can not really tell you into detail what it looks like.

I do not really think this especially represents me, because it does not look like my face. But the picture you can see really represents anger and the clothing really shows the opposite. The colours are really different with the colours of the background. In the other painting the colours of the foreground is used as a background. So I used happy colours in the background, this shows you that it is happy. On the foreground dark colours are used, to show the contrast. The second painting is more like me, because the face looks more like me, but I can not show you because I do not have a picture of it.

I hope I have informed you with this letter, and I hope you like the paintings. Please send me a letter back.

Hope to hear you soon,

Lorenzo Flipse