Sketchbook stencil

From my understanding, our sketchbook project is about one engaging with our own creative artistic expressionistic identity and I am assuming the work will revolve around our experience; Thus, the stencil of my father’s image is a only one feature of my own Chicana identity and the rest of the project will consist of other features. The image on my Sketchbook is of my father Matias Villalobos. This is one of the only few images that I have of him since he passed away almost three years ago.  I chose this image first, because I want to honor his memory; second, because he was my best friend and lastly I want my first image to be a scope of my sketchbook project.  I find that the educacion that my father and mother continue to provide for me is vital to my identity and career path.  Since the passing of my father, I have grown as a person, though  i have a sense that he lives within who I am today.  My father’s stencil image is a reflection of only a few aspects of his persona.  He was a casual herb smoker who believed in the simplicity of happiness. Like the stencil of his image, he was a simple man who found happiness in being part of a united family (La Familia).