Underworked?
Today’s watercolor may be a reaction to yesterday’s overthinking, overworking of my original minimalist strokes. Here it is: In keeping with the spirit of minimalism, thus ends this post.
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Closer
Yesterday I zeroed in on part of a face, my face as a little boy. Today I am getting even closer. I began with my 3-inch brush loaded with yellow ochre, cadmium red light and titanium white. Two simple streaks and it was done. But I wasn’t satisfied. I wanted to embed this shape in […]
Eye
The dark eyes of my photograph from many years ago (in When are Portraits Self Portraits?) really caught my attention. I followed up with three portraits based on that photograph (Dirty Blond, Negative Blond and Disorientation). Today’s watercolor focuses even more closely on this shadow eye. Eyes are supposed to tell one about the machinations of […]
Disorientation
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately. I just finished Twin by Allen Shawn. This memoir by a professor of music and composer, is about his and his family’s experience with his mentally disabled twin sister. Many parts of this book resonated with me since my older brother Michael is autistic, low functioning and […]
Negative Blond
I like the rendition of Dirty Blond I did for yesterday’s post. It seems to abstract the salient features of my own portrait captured from that 8mm film my dad took many years ago. Today I tried to replicate what I did yesterday, only with complimentary colors. My thinking was that the Dirty Blond image was […]
Dirty Blond
I remember when I was I kid, my aunt called me a dirty blond. She was of course referring to my hair color at the time, but I thought she was insulting me. I cried. The photograph from yesterday is from that period (the late 1950s). You can tell that my hair is light-colored. I […]
When are Portraits Self Portraits?
The photo below is me as a child, but not one I took. I glommed it from an 8mm film my father must have taken, that was converted to video. Originally, I posted this in Micro Expressions. I was not sure what my expression meant, but it didn’t seem to be a happy one. I wonder […]
Self Portrait with Blue Nose
The idea for today’s self portrait was to use color to depict near and far planes in the multiple-view portrait of myself. As with yesterday’s post, the self portrait below combines my image with that of my brother Michael. Mike is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. I have included him as part of my image, […]
Self Portrait From the Back
A person is often formed by what he or she sees. In the photomontage/self portrait below, you see the back of my head dissolving into my brain, which is somehow processing all that it sees and feels.* *Note that the black and white photographs are of my family and my brother Michael
Another Angle – Self Portrait
Today’s post presents another variation in my exploration of the self portrait. (See Self Portrait – Photo Therapy, Merged Self Portrait, Combination Portrait, Three Views, Self Portrait – Revisited, Big Self Portrait, Engaged, Self Portrait in Three Quarters.) Yesterday’s self portrait (It Was Inevitable) connected my ‘self’ with my impression of my brother’s self. (My brother Mike is […]
