Saturday, June 10, 2006

Self Portrait #1


It's a self-portrait, because Natalie asked, for Sparky's Self Portrait Marathon.

I know it's pale and limpid. So many night-time dreams over the years that I ought to draw, paint... but I don't know.

9 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:59 AM

    It's severe as well as soft, ghostly but trying to materialise. Reminds me a bit of Odilon Redon's style.
    I'd love to see you do another one in your bolder painting mode.

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  2. Natalie, oh thank you, trying to materialize, yes, and perhaps I am somewhat aligned to the Symbolist movement, something dreamy there...

    In the tiny space in which I live watercolour pencils is safest, but I'll try. Self portraits are strange exercises!

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  3. Monet hair! Lovely.

    Smooch,
    The Tart
    ; )

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  4. I see vibrancy in the lines, in the interplay of light and shadow....

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  5. Thank you Jocelyn, and e_journeys. When my daughter came home & I showed it to her, she declared it didn't look like me unless you turn it sideways! Ah, sigh... back to the drawing board, and on to #2... :)

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  6. Brenda, nice work. Enjoying your blog and esp the story of the "sex" drawing. How we all project... :-)

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  7. They are so Piscean, so Neptunian,these portraits. Magical.

    "We are such stuff as dreams are made of" ....

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  8. Tsk, my comments keep disappearing. I love this. Delicate and almost austere. Pale, where your work is often so vividly colourful. Eyes closed or hooded,when you're often so open. Another view.

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  9. Rrramone, Mary, Jean,

    I love the book, The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was by Wendy Doniger. Perhaps we are simply versions of ourselves...

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