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By Mickaila Francis
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

60 × 40 × 1 cm

Materials:

The materials used in this piece is mainly a wooden board cut from a larger piece of wood, I did this in a workshop during my foundation year. The paint mediums were used interchangeably as the backgrounds were done with acrylics and for the subject itself oils were used. I would switch between them to perfect certain areas. I do see this painting as mixed media as It took a variety of different methods to create.

Primary Medium:

Oil Painting

Medium
2024
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When I made this piece It was made through a project I was doing during my course. I wanted to create something that tied into the themes of memories, family, familiarity and culture and I also wanted knew from the beginning that I wanted it to be bright and vivid. Through making this, I used my family member as reference. It was a photo I took of him during my trip back at Jamaica, he was sitting against our house, mid conversation, smoking. I decided to use that candid moment, stylise it and create a few sketches from it. I immediately brought them to procreate and from then on I started conjuring up designs and made a few different colour schemes and combinations with it. In the end I chose to stick with the bright pink (acrylic) that faded down into a bright-ish ochre yellow (oils) to create a sort of ombré effect, I also thought to contrast the background with the hat by using vibrant blue (with oils) despise his hat originally being red. I initially had plans for the shirt as well but I loved the way how the lack of an outline and the boldness of the pink blended well together. So I let it stay like that. I've noticed halfway through the making of this that painting with board is much more easier after it's primed, there's less texture and it's a lot smoother which allowed me to create nice brush strokes. Overall this piece doesn't really have a magical symbolic meaning, I simply wanted to realise a moment from my captured memories and create a fun piece dedicated to a person that I'm familiar with and is heavily familiar with my culture.

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