Self Loathing by Gabriella Phillips in Chicago

This piece was one of my most difficult pieces to make mentally, and I portrayed it through a difficult medium for most - oil pastels. It was the first self portrait of me in the present (at the time it was made), and I wanted to try out foreshortening. I was challenged to use my own body which seemed daunting for the period of life I was in, but I ended up really loving making it with all the colors I added and the textures of the pastels.