Self Portrait (Challenge Painting)
Oil on 1/8" Gessoboard. Approx 6"x6" SOLD
Here is the next challenge painting. This time it was my turn to choose the subject. I wanted to pick something I haven't painting in years...self portrait. I picked a pose that didn't show my receding hair line. Below are the others'.
"Make Me Beautiful, Rembrandt!" Oil on Panel, 8"x6", (c)2009 Diana Moses Botkin
"Making Up My Own Story", Oil on Canvas 24"x20" Marie Fox
"Self Portrait Loathing", Oil on Panel 12"x12" (c) 2009 Robin Cheers
"Self-Portrait with Steve's Shirt", Oil on Canvas 11"x14" Silvina Day
"ME ala Schmid", Oil on Canvas 8"x10" Vicki Ross
"Self Portrait", Pastel 8"x10" Mike Beeman
posted by Michael Naples at 8:46 PM
13 Comments:
ok can anyone join in, in this self portrait painting?
Great angle and portrait and your comment made me laugh....:))r.
Fantastic job!
Wow, all of these portraits are good. You have a very talented group. (I'm with Maureen... is it a closed group?)
Mike, your self-portrait is very evocative and wonderfully original in concept. As always, I'm wild about your brush work and colors. Really a terrific response to our challenge. Thank you for coming up with this subject. I think it made us all reach inside our creative selves more than usual.
Great portrait and I love the unique perspective.
Thanks for all the nice comments. To Maureen and Shirley, i think our group is capped right now but you may contact Diana Moses-Botkin about possibly joining. She is the group's creator.
The composition is compelling. What where you thinking in this self portrait. PatMeyerdailypainter.blogspot.com
Mike your painting is truly magnificent. Few colors yet so complex. Love it!
Wonderful blog!!!
You chose a challenging angle (right up the nose, as it were). Nicely done though! These are all great.
Great close-up, Mike!
The unique angle and contrasting colors are what make this self-portrait shine!
I hear ya about the receding hairline. I think mine's starting to go too! But I'm still in the denial stage. (^_^)
-Dean
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