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~8"x10". gouache.
Earlier this summer I sat out on the front porch with a mirror to make a self-
portrait. It was extremely sunny, which accounts for the scowl as the light
was directly in my face.
Halfway through it, I realized that I didn't like it, and that I didn't actually
want to be painting. So I started to slop paint over it. Then I stopped that
because it seemed like a waste of paint.
I figured I should keep the surface because I'm poor and things to paint on
with good surfaces are hard to come by. So I could always paint over it later.
I just now found it in my studio behind a chest of drawers where it had
fallen. I don't know if I like it or not. When I look at it up close, there is stuff
going on that I like but don't understand.
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Earlier this summer I sat out on the front porch with a mirror to make a self-
portrait. It was extremely sunny, which accounts for the scowl as the light
was directly in my face.
Halfway through it, I realized that I didn't like it, and that I didn't actually
want to be painting. So I started to slop paint over it. Then I stopped that
because it seemed like a waste of paint.
I figured I should keep the surface because I'm poor and things to paint on
with good surfaces are hard to come by. So I could always paint over it later.
I just now found it in my studio behind a chest of drawers where it had
fallen. I don't know if I like it or not. When I look at it up close, there is stuff
going on that I like but don't understand.
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Category Artwork (Traditional) / All
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I wrote out an answer here, but then put it to a journal entry here.
It looks very designed, but at the same time very painterly with your application of the gouache and fearless use of color to describe light and shadow. Also, it reminds me a bit of Kurt Vargo's work. His style is very different from yours but this portrait gave me a similar impression: http://www.vargoart.com/images/port.....ts/hockney.jpg
i first read that as "I didn't actually want to be a painting."
and my first thought was, you could always try being a cake!
idk
and my first thought was, you could always try being a cake!
idk
You could always tell people it was painted the day after you had a dream of infinite needles passing through a gory hole in David Letterman's right foot while bananas vomited out census forms that a purple crow kept telling you you had to send in on time, because the toilet was overflowing Orange Crush.
...Or you could just tell them it's a self-portrait that didn't work out.
...Or you could just tell them it's a self-portrait that didn't work out.
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