Friday, July 31, 2009

Lucie Geffre

130x97 cm
Acrylics and Oil on Canvas

I'm sending you a self-portrait that has just been selected in a painting competition in Spain. It's 130x97 cm, acrilics and oil on canvas.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Ria Vanden Eynde

'Moth'
Acrylic on Canvas
8x10

I'm blogging on http://painting2cancers.blogspot.com/ posting pieces that are about my surviving 2 cancers. While being treated paintings by Frida Kahlo often came to my mind. Whenever I look at 'The Broken Column,' for instance, I experience compassion. Now, I've started to paint myself, inspired by her and other artists. To me, painting works as a language in the cancer-context, as a journal medium and this blog as an illustrated journal of sorts. 
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Dana Cooper



Having some time this afternoon, I decided to paint a self portrait. I've been wanting to do one just to see my progress from the last one I did over six months ago. I would rather paint almost anything other than me, but the time had come to chart my progress. This was done from a photo rather than life, I can stay very still that way!