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Saturday, August 28, 2010

One hour self portrait

 
I'm hopping all over the place lately due to my fish printing not cooperating or more like, me not concentrating on it enough.

Today I was going to throw the remains of some oil paint away.  It was the remainder of a previous painting and I had over squeezed.  Instead, I decided that I'd do another one hour painting with whatever was left on this limited palette.

This is a self portrait, done from looking into the webcam of my laptop.  Its not a perfect likeness, but close, considering my limitations of time and paint.  Its on a 6 x 8 canvas panel.

I like self imposed time limits for paintings.  They really loosen up strokes and colour value decisions and prevent me from futzing around on a piece forever.

8 comments:

  1. really nice :) its great what you can get done in an hour :)

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  2. A rough sketch, an excellent idea. I like your choice of colors Jeanette.

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  3. It's lovely - and I recognised you!

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  4. Awesome! It's really beautiful, Jeanette.

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  5. Thanks Pat. Its fun to test myself sometimes.

    Jennifer, I still can't get a good image of this painting. Here its too dark. It won't photograph for some reason.

    Olivia, the colours were leftovers and fairly limited which is good. I like limited palettes as they take away some decision making from me.

    Cathy, you did? Wonderful! That's a good thing then. I need more practice on quick portraits, but I don't think I'd ever make it as a street artist. :)

    Thank you Sue.

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  6. I had planned to say the same as Cathy - I recognized you immediately!

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  7. Thank you for sharing
    This fabulous work with us
    Good creations

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