Christina Dietz

Final Project Proposal

I do not like displaying the human body completely realistic, if at all, because I don’t receive as much pleasure perceiving something as I do on a day-to-day basis. Therefore, I am going to draw a girl, representing me, sitting down in a pondering position with her hand pressed up against her cheek and her elbow resting on her kneecap. I will base this position off a previous piece I have already done of the lead singer of pulp. Or might even use the drawing. She will be outside with grass enveloping her to hint at my love for nature. I am going to enlarge the hand and the eye to emphasize my fascination with these two body parts. Also, on the hand there will be little sentences running across the veins –like the words are being pumped into my blood. These sentences will be taken out of inspirational letters from my grandfather and dad. The eye will extremely massive and will serve as a portal to what I am thinking about. Eyes are also another feature I want to focus on. I believe eyes are the camera lens on our feelings; you open the eye and can see someone’s inner self. In the gigantic eye I will have two to three drawings representing who I was, who I am now, and who I want to be in the future. Therefore, this piece is culminating my life. I am going to use a mixed media of ink, charcol, conte, and maybe some watercolor. I am making my self very vulnerable by revealing my inner qualities, which is important to me. In general, I always try to expose my self as much as possible because it pushes me to grow. The piece will be a massive scale because this will emphasize the massive thoughts going through my head and power of this place of life I am in. The size will make up of two 18’’ by 24” and the drawings in the eye will be 4” by 6’’. The drawings in the eye will just be done out of ink to illuminate they are in a different place than the rest of the drawing. Chuck Close has influenced my massive scale and what will seem expressionless in one eye. The normal expressionless eye will be juxtaposed with the huge active eye and everything swirling around in my head. Lucian Freud also influences this piece because I want to give my body a smudgy texture with many lines. Egon Schiele also influences this piece because I like his loose lines and flowey affect on the body. I also might use some watercolor mixed with the black lines.