Sustained Investigation

For my sustained investigation, I focused on painting portraits and explored how color can affect the way we perceive emotions and meaning. In each piece, I kept the faces very neutral, giving them blank stares with little to no expression. I wanted to see if the color of the work alone could make the viewer feel something, even without the face showing any emotion. I painted the hands in different colors, using green, blue, red, and orange to test this idea. Each color was chosen for its traditional psychological meaning: green often represents calmness or growth, blue is tied to sadness or peace, red symbolizes anger or passion, and orange is connected to energy and warmth. My goal was to investigate the psychology of how we perceive color and how those feelings can be translated into art, even when the figures themselves remain still and emotionless.