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Analysis When analysing the internal portrayals of my subjects I am able to take a multidisciplinary approach and refer to various formal elements. I have used plants to explore the visual and tactile elements of pattern, texture, colour, and tone and relate them to my subjects. The external portraits investigate line, form and space. In this way I have adopted a multidisciplinary approach to my work and have used digital video in a painterly way. I researched elements of formal portraiture by obtaining interviews with artists from the National Portrait Gallery and by viewing works. I researched digital portraiture such as Burson’s ‘She with He’, & ‘He with She’ which morphs male and female artists. I also researched more textural approaches and was particularly interested in ‘The Skin Series’ by Elizabeth Ingraham, which is a series of constructed sewn ‘skins’ that relates to issues of identity. I compared the historical portraits which conveyed wealth and status to more expressive and emotive works by contemporary artists. After researching I decide