I have found that when I get stuck for very long in my painting, it often helps me to get unstuck for me to paint a new style of self- portrait. So, yesterday, I painted this little doodle: sort of a combination abstract and pointilist self-portrait, with lipstick and glasses.
It is on a 12″ diameter stretched canvas. If you really want it, talk to me. we can haggle. Therapy not included.
When I get stuck in my painting, I eventually figure out that I need to go back to where I started and paint a self-portrait. I believe this is my ninth. Each one is a different style or approach. I realized as I was planning this one that Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh each did 35 or 36 self-portraits. Self-portraits are liberating. There is no customer who needs to be satisfied or who is going to judge it. The pressure is off.
That is the color of my hair, this week. And, it is cut and combed in a Mohawk. I’m wearing black, so I’m wearing pearls like the ladies on Facebook told me I should.
This painting is acrylic on veneer on an 18″ diameter particle board with a rope loop to hang it.
If you want to buy it. Make me an offer.
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