B9

PART 1
A self portrait is known as an image of yourself, taken or created by yourself. Self portraits can range from a frontal view to a close up, to profile views, as long as whoever is creating the piece is the subject. I have several distinct features, ideas, hobbies, characteristics, and interests that make me who I am. First of all my greatest friends would explain me as fun and very outgoing. I am always up for new and exciting things. I love to travel, I have been to China and it was an amazing experience. I plan to study abroad next semester in Australia and I want to participate in a language program in Spain the summer before I graduate. I love art and I am interested in working with all sorts of media. I prefer ceramic arts and painting the most. I love working with abstraction because it gives people something to think about, and it's so different. Now that I am a college student I want to be seen as mature, but at the same time I want people to know I will never lose my fun and energetic personality. I would love to teach kids as soon as I graduate college because children are great at keeping you busy and they sure know how to have fun. Many people assume that teaching children won't allow you use the skills you have acquired in college. I believe that children can teach their educators so much. I have always loved working with kids. Overall, I want to be seen as a fun, energetic, well-rounded, caring, and mature person who enjoys teaching others and helping those in need. In a classroom I would express my different sides by listening when someone needed help, and giving them advice. I can be enthusiastic about things that are new and exciting, and I can try to help someone recognize the importance in the subject and discuss why that person agrees or disagrees. As an educator, you have to be prepared to have an enthusiastic side to you so you can keep your audience awake and interested in what you are saying. As an educator, you have to be easy going but not to the point where people can walk all over you and start to cause trouble. This is where as an educator you need to have a sense of control, and set consequences for those who don't follow rules. From day to day, and year to year, obviously we are all getting older. Hopefully, we are all learning more and more, and we are learning how to act our age in proper situations. Every day, and every year and I becoming more and more knowledgeable in proper ways to educate students about art. I am learning more and more, preparing me for either an elementary, middle school, or high school classroom and every day life. I want to become a well educated, and well known art teacher who has a positive affect on every student who crosses my path. I want to be forever remembered in my student's minds. I want to introduce art to people as an interesting and important subject. I want to be an inspiration for others.

PART 2

The first image I selected I found really interesting because it uses geometric shapes to create the image. I was looking for something where the face of the person in the self portrait had been cut and moved to distort the image. I couldn't find anything like this, but my searches led me to this one. It is interesting to me also because of it's wide range of color usage. The second image I really like and I think I might use for my project. I want to find an image of myself with glasses/sunglasses on so I can place images of myself, my goals, ideas, hobbies and inspirations in life inside the glasses. I think this would be really interesting and it has a nice meaning behind it. Every day you look at yourself and think about the things you are doing, or are planning on doing in life. I think it would be a great metaphor and I could think of different images and text to include to create a diptych or triptych.