Holly Bedrosian

Self Portrait with Tea

28x22

Colored Pencil on Sanded Paper

I set up a photograph to work from for this piece. More recently I began experimenting with creating a self portrait working from a  mirror, a task that has proven very challenging. I am now working in oil, pastel, and colored pencil, and I focus on portraits and figurative fine art.

My website is: www.hollybedrosian.com
My blog is: www.hollybedrosian.blogspot.com

Nicole Caulfield

Self Portrait with Still Life

12x16

Colored Pencils

my blog: www.dailypainter.com
my website: www.nicolecaulfield.com

Self Portraits in Colored Pencil

Ann Kullberg ( I think of her as the Mother of Colored Pencil Portraits) sent me a link to her Members' Show 2006, because the theme was self portraits. 

Go to    http://www.annkullberg.com/theme06.php to see these fine paintings.

Deborah Ross

Welcome. I hope you feel comfortable here and will 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. I hope to see many submissions to this blog. Seeing each others' self portraits will be not only entertaining, but hopefully we can learn something from each other. All you have to do is email a sharp jpg with a title, size, medium and your name and blog or website address. If you'd like to give some background on the piece, that would be cool. Sorry, no photographs, no digital artwork. Only drawings and paintings.

If you recognize the painting below, you have seen it used as my avatar when I post comments on other artists' blogs. It's just part of the first self portrait I ever did, which was about two years ago. Well, that was the first painted sp. Really the first was a pencil drawing done in about 1972. I'll try to dig that up.

16x20

acrylics, collage

(just a detail)

11x14

Colored Pencils

I just finished this self portrait a few weeks ago. Now I've started another which will be a partner to this.