Urban Sketchers, draw a selfie…

Posted on March 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 30day challenge, Art, Challenge, Drawing, Fun, Life, Pencil sketch, self portrait, Selfie, Sketchbook, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent, What to do while self isolatingLeave a comment

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Selfie’ portrait, including phone and the canvas of a kingfisher it’s propped up on. Old brushes and easle. Background on the phone is a painting I did in about 1982,of my imagined self, so a selfie of a self portrait? Happy to join the challenge. Why is the photo a mirror image to what was on the screen I was drawing?

Oh my double chins! How difficult it is to draw while trying to look over your glasses because I can’t see clearly. I need varifocals, but after spending loads on a pair a few years ago I hated them so much I never wore them again!

Sketching with urban sketchers means including the background and having the image in context. Why not do your own selfie?

Green Woman self portrait

Posted on February 29, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fun, Green woman, Leaves, Painting, Playing, self portraitLeave a comment

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Suddenly I’m painting again! I decided to do something with this picture. It was only roughly worked out. I decided I wanted to make a self portrait as a green woman. I used a photo of myself on my phone and overlaid leaves onto it. I don’t know if it’s finished but I liked trying to bring out the shaping and shadows on it.

Sitting in the living room, I should go down the studio, but my cold is worse. Anyway I will work on another partially painted picture.

Got to start painting again

Posted on February 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fun, Green woman, Humour, Imagination, Life, Painting, Portrait, self portrait, Work in progressLeave a comment

_20200219_130113 this is a self portrait I started last year, but haven’t finished. So where best to start when you have been a bit blocked, than to work on something like this.

I want to do a series of ‘green’ portraits. The idea being that I can make a different image that is striking and interesting. Although there is a basic structure done on this I may make a lot of changes. Its definitely a work in progress.

What to paint on.

Posted on November 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1981, Art, College days, North Staffordshire Polytechnic, Oil on boards, Painting, Photographic slides, self portraitLeave a comment

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This was a self portrait from 1981 when I was still at college. If I remember correctly I painted it in the summer holidays on some wooden boards, which were held together with tongue and grooves. I painted it in oil paints, not having come across acrylic paint until a few years later.

This is one of a few slides I have from that time. It’s interesting to see how my style has changed and the methods I use now, compared to in the past. I don’t know what happened to it. It may still be somewhere in the house.

Green Woman, self portrait..

Posted on September 12, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fun, Green woman, Portrait, self portrait, Work in progressLeave a comment

I suppose it would happen. I decided to do a self portrait….. I seem to do them once in a decade. The last one was a drawing about ten years ago.

I’m not sure if painting myself as a Green woman will work, but hopefully it will compliment the portrait of my hubby as a Green man. I’m thinking of offering to do them as portraits for people who are interested in the pagan world.

I’ll share more as it progresses. X

Almost done, painting update.

Posted on August 17, 2019August 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Painting, pprogress, self portrait, Work in progressLeave a comment

I’ve added myself in the bottom right hand side of the painting. I’m there as a ghostly shadow in the photo, so why not? Trying to get an idea of cracked paint on the frame. 15660661997191669111920713503871

Can you see my phone?

When I was forty

Posted on July 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Forty, Fun, Memory, Painting, self portraitLeave a comment

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I did this self portrait. I don’t do many and haven’t done one recently. Maybe I should. At this time I had the front bedroom as a studio, until we got too much stuff and I moved my painting stuff out. My tee shirt was a recycling one but I haven’t seen it for years. I’m not sure what I think about this, but it’s another Facebook memory. It’s a bit blurred. I still have the original upstairs, will have to find it out.. Almost twenty years later.

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