This assignment was to create a self portrait mimicking another artist work. For my portrait I chose to mimic the UK based artist Hashim Akib who does a lot of portrait work using color blocking techniques. To try and imitate this style, I attempted to blend as little as possible and to focus on simply laying individual colors on the canvas. This was the first time I have ever intensely studies and artist’s work and attempted to imitate it, and for my first try I feel like I performed well. The biggest difficulty for me was remembering not to blend the colors and to place the colors on the canvas.
