I've only painted myself one other time. I'll get that one down from the attic one of these days and get it posted here. It's 14 years old. ...and I had firey orange lips in that one.
This time my lips are blue and yellow and purple. I painted 3 watercolor paintings while left alone in the hotel room in CO last week. All 3 had this color scheme. I guess I was very serious while I painted. Either that or I was sobered at the sight of myself naked. Yes, this painting has another third to the bottom of it---but I'm not ready to put that up here. (Here's where you quit holding your breath and can open your eyes again, haha.)
Really, though, the self portrait is something I'd recommend to everyone. Even if you think you can't draw or paint---it teaches you to really look at your body. If you think you're too curvy or bumpy or skinny and lumpy, you are forced to see the beauty of your natural self in the lines. Even if the final product doesn't say what the mirror does, there's a pretty good chance you'll see yourself pretty clearly through/in the painting.
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Wow! This would be hard to do.
p.s. I watched the film "Modigliani" with Andy Garcia in it...Another sad story about an anguished artist. He died at 35 from tuberculous meningitis, and his common-law wife who was pregnant with child committed suicide by jumping out of a 5-story window just days after his death.
What a picture! It is a combination of you, your mom and my mom! Awesome!
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
This is interesting! I don't know if I could do the naked painting thing. But maybe it would work like you said, and it would be a healthy thing. I really like the color scheme you used.
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