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I don't know why, but I have always been shy about painting myself. But as a practice, because only practice makes perfect and I need models, I decided to paint a self-portrait, using a photo my daughter took on my last birthday. I am looking at a candle-lit chocolate cake. Don't I look happy?
The hardest part was naturally the mouth, as the famous John Singer Sargent said, a portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth! I am not sure whether it is exactly me, but it must be close enough. All the people who saw it knew immediately that it was a self-portrait. Below are some of the step-by-step pictures.
This is a first class painting. Everything works.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed seeing the WIP steps and thank you for taking the time.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Julie!
DeleteFantastic painting, Kim!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Hye Sun!
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