Coloured portrait

All of my portraits so far have been in black and white. I thought it would be a good idea to experiment with doing a coloured portrait and see if I liked the results. I decided to paint a portrait of Miley Cyrus because she's such a talked about person at the moment, mostly for the outrageous way she's behaving at the moment. Like my previous Miley Cyrus painting I did it on plastic.

Originally I wasn't so sure about the end result. I preferred the less literal interpretations I was getting with using black and white.

However something accidentally happened to this piece of work which actually gave it some meaning. Because of the large amount of layers of paint, the painting started to crack and fall off the plastic. I saw this as an opportunity to save this work from having no relevance to my project.

 I now see this piece as a representation of the deterioration of modern culture. The entertainment business is falling apart and people such as Miley Cyrus are gaining attention for the wrong reasons. The cracks in this painting covey the cracks of the entertainment industry and the influence it is creating with the younger generation of today.