I had been thinking of creating self portraits in the styles of different artistic genres. The first that came to my mind was cubism. My knowledge of cubism is the breaking down of scenes into component planes. In some cubist paintings, it seems as if the space portrayed inside the frame is fractured. I am […]
I don’t think this looks like me but Joy thinks it’s better than most of my self portraits thus far. It’s a basic transcription of the photo I took of myself moments before. Since I am getting better at copying, I suppose it is my likeness. I intend to increasingly abstract my facial features in […]
These 8 sketches are portraits of poses and gestures of people doing one activity or another.
Dancer in the street. June 1990, NYC.
This person looks like s/he could be a Morris Dancer, but I don’t know what those pillow-like objects are. They might be cases holding old-fashion drums. I do know that this is from a photo I took in 1990 in Brooklyn, NY.
I took this shot in 1990 at the back of a pizza joint in NYC in 1990.
I took a picture of this pedestrian in April of 2022 in LA. He or she was just standing in front of the curb with a jar of water and a stuffed bear in his/her back pack.
From another black and white photo I took in Brooklyn, NY in 1990. Man watching and dog, being a dog.
From 2021 in LA: A man on the way to welding something.
Car profiles from my photos. I nearly always get the left profile. I suppose if I were in England, I would get the right profile (different autos, of course).
