I gave it another go tonight...using me as the model. Gosh, I look so old, mean and tired!
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- mARTa
- I am a 52 year old middle age woman (middle because I plan to live to be 100 years old!). I pursue a passionate life and savor every moment I am here. I have been given many gifts of family, love, vocation and talent. I love people, especially the young children with cancer whom I am privledged to care for as a pediatric oncology RN. I balance the difficult work I do with fun things like traveling to far away places, learning new languages ( I speak 4 now), knitting, quilting, reading, and being an outdoor girl: hiking, kayaking and camping. Just sketching and painting my way through the world before me. I hope you enjoy your visit here.
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You have alot of expression here and it is good practise, even though you didn't completely capture the real pretty hearty "you". A selfportrait is by default almost always severe and this is a difficult medium...I think you did great in using it!
ronell
Self portraits...Hmmmm...in a league of their own!
I think you may have captured how you felt here Marta. I know when I was doing self portraits it took me weeks before I could break through all the boundaries and emotions to end up with something that resembled a true likeness of my 'looks' but each and every one had 'me' in them in some form, my thoughts, my fears, my likes, my dislikes, my emotions....It is THE most interesting and thought provoking subject I have ever worked with and I urge you to continue. I must have another bash myself.
This is a beautiful drawing, well done working light over dark, not an easy task!
Well, I do think this set of drawings shows you working out a difficult task, and the self portrait works as a portrait even if it doesn't catch whatever 'essence' you would like. White on black is the way I have to think when doing lino cuts - the opposite of water colour - all good exercis for the brain, I suppose.
I always do that too when I do self portraits - trying to be 'honest' you focus on little wrinkles and things that hardly show to other people. You are much cuter than that! That said, it's a difficult medium to use for a portrait - I like to ad both darks and lights on mid-tone paper - I think it's easier than just working with the lights.
Well you are dang serious looking here, which I am sure captured the moment quite well. I bow to the other very experienced artists above and yet I have to say, Wow there is a ton of expression here!! You are certainly stretching your artistic muscles in this class
Hi! Marta: I love your portrait. Please do one with the Happy Marta! This is so good.
Sherrie
It's a good drawing but you're much prettier than HER...
she is not in a good mood...
sandy
I tried to comment on this a few days ago and failed. I think my computer is rebelling against IE7. We ALL look mean in self-portraits. It's the way we hold our mouths when we're concentrating. I've seen your photo and I know you dont' look mean.