Blue Girl

Today we made Picasso inspired art. My favorite pieces that he has done is the Old Guitarist piece. Blue is my favorite color and I also relate it to a song that I loved when I was younger called "Im Blue" by Eiffel 65. But that isn't the only reason why I like this piece. I've learned that one of the reasons why during Picasso's blue period was what it was because back then paint was expensive to buy and that blue paint could have been the only paint he had or was the cheapest to buy. This to me would kinda be depressing if you didn't have any money.This would also tie into the feeling, his Blue Period gave off. I was also fascinated to find out that under the Guitarist painting, is another painting. There is a possibility that he didn't have any money and so he had to resort to painting over one of his other pieces. Thats why I was inspired to make a piece like this. 

What I did was used a frontal profile photo of myself and then in a new layer and added a side profile picture of me. The side profile picture, I changed to opacity of the image to 50% and then tired to line up my face as best as I could. 

Afterwards I created a new layer and outlined myself with the paint tool. 

Then I selected different areas and filled them with different shades of blue. Then in the background I used the gradient tool and filled it in with different shades of blue. 

Then I went to the filters and in the stylize tab I used the Oil Paint filter on the whole image. 

Blue Girl, Digital, Photoshop CC 2017.