Layers of Purity

Lee, Nikki. Layers of Purity. 4 July 2016. Pixlr. 1982px X 2691px.

This portrait is the first piece where I began to go outside of my own image collection. There are tons of free stock images to experiment. When I came across this image, the big innocent eyes drew me in and I just wanted to play around with the features without ruining its original look. Layers of Purity is simply what the image is. A pure face with layers of duplicates of the same pure face. The background is a sort of Andy Warhol filter going on where each image is a different color. In the Pixlr app, you can turn the intensity of the filter up or down. As I turned it down to see how the single image compares to the strength of the four images, I liked how the four images became a part of the background with a central focus on the foreground. In the end, it worked out and allowed me to create a cool title for the piece.