Dear Lorenzo,
During art lessons, we had to a self-portrait. We were supposed to use Van Gogh’s style. This means that we had to express our feelings in the painting. We could do this, by using complementary colours. These are colours, that go together. For example, red and green, blue and orange, purple and yellow. On the right you see my pictures. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to finish them. My whole face is missing on the right picture.
Anyway, let’s get a closer look to the paintings. When you look to the left painting, you see a very dark background. Dark grey, red, and blue. It is supposed to tell something about my angry, sad mood. However, I am smiling. You would think that this is incorrect. And so it is. It’s because my skills are not that great. My nose is missing too.
You should note my sweater too. It has a neutral blue colour. If you look closely, you can find green in it too. My teacher advised me to do that. It came out, that it looked rather nice.
I only used very big brushes. I didn’t want to be very detailed, because I didn’t feel to it.
This picture tells me that I’m quite an emotional boy. I can be angry (sometimes), and sad simultaneously. This was the case, when my grandfather died. I was angry, and sad at the same time.
The other picture is very different. It doesn’t tell everything yet, because my face isn’t finished. The background is very bright. A sweet colour, you may say. Unfortunately, I failed painting a good colour of sweater. It should have been brighter. The background is very
inaccurate. No details. It makes that I’m just thinking about one thing.
I can’t really tell much more about it. It expresses a happy, and a confused mood.
I hope that I’ve told you enough about it. I didn’t really like it, although my teacher said that I did well.
Jan Peter Simons
T3A
November 30th
During art lessons, we had to a self-portrait. We were supposed to use Van Gogh’s style. This means that we had to express our feelings in the painting. We could do this, by using complementary colours. These are colours, that go together. For example, red and green, blue and orange, purple and yellow. On the right you see my pictures. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to finish them. My whole face is missing on the right picture.
Anyway, let’s get a closer look to the paintings. When you look to the left painting, you see a very dark background. Dark grey, red, and blue. It is supposed to tell something about my angry, sad mood. However, I am smiling. You would think that this is incorrect. And so it is. It’s because my skills are not that great. My nose is missing too.
You should note my sweater too. It has a neutral blue colour. If you look closely, you can find green in it too. My teacher advised me to do that. It came out, that it looked rather nice.
I only used very big brushes. I didn’t want to be very detailed, because I didn’t feel to it.
This picture tells me that I’m quite an emotional boy. I can be angry (sometimes), and sad simultaneously. This was the case, when my grandfather died. I was angry, and sad at the same time.
The other picture is very different. It doesn’t tell everything yet, because my face isn’t finished. The background is very bright. A sweet colour, you may say. Unfortunately, I failed painting a good colour of sweater. It should have been brighter. The background is very
inaccurate. No details. It makes that I’m just thinking about one thing.
I can’t really tell much more about it. It expresses a happy, and a confused mood.
I hope that I’ve told you enough about it. I didn’t really like it, although my teacher said that I did well.
Jan Peter Simons
T3A
November 30th
