The thought of a self-portrait never occurred to me until I saw a photo someone took of me while I was so engrossed in what I was doing that I became completely oblivious to my surroundings. It seemed to be material for exploring what a moment of the creative process would look like frozen in time by oil paint.
I am a mail artist. Sometimes I send self portraits in the mail. This is my latest piece that was sent to Mark Bloch. This piece is acrylics on a vintage record. I also do oil paintings, make rag dolls, jewelry, and artist books. My one true love is mail art. I have a current mail art call that anyone can enter. All work is shown on the website and at a future show. I have two blogs www.jenniferzoe.blogspot and www.wee-hoo.blogspot.com
This self-portrait is painted in pastel on velour paper. As an artist, I have tried many, many self portraits. I feel good about this latest one. It is the best likeness I have achieved over time and that was my goal when I set out to paint it. I can even see the "Kem" family resemblance - my ancestors who have gone before me. It measures about 9" x 12". Keeping the pastel strokes loose and pushing myself on the skintones was another goal. It's worked from my own photo of which I took several - one day in a lull moment. Painting other people is an easier task than painting yourself, I feel.
Email me a jpg image which is clear and cropped. Include your name, email, website or blog address, size, title, medium and a little background on your work.
Please share your self portraits with the rest of us..... Even the ones you have thrown in the back of your closet or in your basement. Seeing each others' self portraits will be not only entertaining, but hopefully we can learn something from each other. Sorry, no photographs, no digital artwork. Only drawings and paintings.
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