# 75 Mirror

First of all, I'm highly annoyed that my camera refused to take a picture of the piece without some type of glare. Oh well that’s what I get for using chrome nail polish as paint…

This is actually a painting / drawing / collage /…. whatever you want to categorize it that I made my senior year of high school but as it is one of my favorites I really wanted to incorporate it into my challenge. The way I see it I think it fits the theme pretty well. The middle is meant to be a shattered mirror. Anyway I seems like the majority of the time girls (particularly teenage girls) lack the ability to stare at themselves in the mirror and believe 100% that they truly are beautiful. Therefore they hide themselves under layers of makeup that in the end fail to hide their own insecurities.

Materials necessary for this piece:

1.   Cardboard – dissected to expose the inner ripples and recycles pieces collaged into the mirror frame

2.   3 bottles of Chrome nail polish – particularly my favorite 2 shades pink and blood red and the dark fleshy color to resemble foundation makeup

3.   Prisma  Pencils – to draw girl gazing into the mirror and other minor touch ups

4.   1 powder plush – yes it’s used…

5.   CD – the broken mirror pieces are actually cut and peeled off of the shiny side of a used CD

6.   Oil pastels – used to color the hand holding a mascara wand

Back in the day when I believed I was bound for a private art school, I went to a portfolio day in Kansas City to meet with 20+ top art colleges in the nation. One recruiter told me that if I brought nothing in my portfolio but this one art piece alone he would offer me a $2000.00 scholarship just for seeing this one. Hmmmmmm.... if only I could sell it for that much, ah wishful thinking.