Still Life

This is my still life painting, I painted the New York Yankees hat because I'm a big fan of the Yankees, "The Big Apple" because is one of the common nicknames that New York City is know of so that's why I painted an apple, a metrocard because is what all New Yorkers use everyday in the subway, a travel coffee mug because that's what some New Yorkers drink everyday whether is cold or hot, the Colombian colors by the hat because even though it has the Colombian colors I wanted to represent a piece of all the Hispanics that live here in New York since 75% of the population in New York are Hispanics, and behind the hat I put the World Trade Center since it was one of the most important symbols that represented New York City. For me this painting defines New York City because its the things that you can only find in New York like the metrocard or something that mostly New Yorkers are know of like the World Trade Center. I think New York is the only place where you can find a variety of races because it was one of the first places where immigrants emigrated to. It might not look very New York City like but if the viewer sees this painting the first thing that would come in his or her mind is New York City. It was harder to find a way to paint the black in the metrocard band and the little stripes in the hat but I was able to use at least a very dark purple to make it look as if it was the color black since I'm not allowed to use the color black in the painting.