My paintings for the series will be a group of portraits based on a trip that I took to the Middle East this past January. 7 artists and teachers were a part of the project to travel and teach the mural painting process to youth and communities in Lebanon and Palestine. The portraits that I paint will all be of individual students that we worked with throughout the month.
My idea with the series is to really focus on conveying the feeling that each person is showing in the images, and tell somewhat of a story for each of them trough the paintings. To add to this and personalize each one, the background of the figures will be painted abstract, feeding off the emotion of each person and my reaction to it. The composition also serves as a comparison and collaboration of two different worlds coming together and the similarities and differences in the struggles we live.
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