Art 2 Quarter 2 Final "The Art of a Sandwich"

I created this work because I thought it would be a challenge and also because I saw a sandwich in my lunchbox. It ended up being a challenge for sure because I could only mix three starting colors. An example of this is the crust of the sandwich. I couldn’t make a brown, so I had to be creative with which colors I mixed. My overall vision for the work is to make people have more of an appetite when they look at it. I accomplished this with my peer critique partner. My work communicates that food is a necessity to life, so why shouldn’t we make it look and taste good? By doing this, I became more thankful and grateful that I have access to food. I learned how to mix colors when I painted my color triangle. This taught me how to look at the three colors that I started with, white, red, and yellow, with a different light. I am now familiar with more colors as a result.

My work fits in with contemporary art because it is based on a realistic thing, but it is somewhat abstract. I can compare my painting to “Éclair” by Derrick Guild. Some similarities are that both paintings are of food, and both are of something sandwiched between bread. A difference is that his is more realistic and he has cream in the center instead of turkey and cheese. In order to create my artwork, I started with sketching. Then, I painted over the pencil with paint, and I used really light yellow for cheese, yellow for mustard, light pink for turkey, and a really light tan color for the bread. The crust was the most challenging part to come up with a color for, so I used orange primarily, but some red in some spots. This work reflects my own life because I like food, and I like sandwiches. Therefore, painting a sandwich accurately reflects a part of my life.