Maria Gardiner arts

 Materials: acrylic paint Process: made an initial thumbnail then took reference photos, sketched, and painted Ideas: I wanted to display the anger and feeling of self harm. Feeling obligated, and a deep want to do the harm, but still having an initial resistance and hatred toward that feeling in those actions.

Materials: acrylic paint Processes: took a reference photo of myself then made a version in black and white values and then painted till i liked it:) Ideas: i wanted to portray a type of hyper focas on ones body as a way of coping and how that can lead to body image issues  This is my progress on my new peice. I want to symbolize the difficulty with accepting your body and using unhealthy eating habits that make you more unhappy with your body. This is obviously just a sketch but i want to focus the values of black and white to portray a type of darkness that sounds this topic

I used a reference of myself and vivid contrasting colors with an “explosion” on the head to portray the feeling over overthinking. How instead of it helping with anxiety it overwhelms and hurts the person even more.