Self Portrait

Back in January 2021, I started a self portrait project and I made a specific pamphlet for it. The goal is to draw one portrait per month and I’ve been trying to do that within the 1st week of the month to prevent procrastination. I’m a little late this month. It will take me 2 years to fill the pamphlet. 

At the beginning of the year, I was focusing more on faces and portraits, so one reason for this project was to see what changed over time from a drawing perspective. Although, currently, I have not been drawing faces. 

The other reason for this project is getting to know my own face in a different way. Most of the time, I’m on auto-pilot with respect to my face. When I look in the mirror there it is, but it’s changing, as I get older and my relationship to it also keeps changing. 

The thing I keep coming back to is that there’s been something deep and profound about having pictures of several people that I am biologically related to and it’s changed how I relate to my own face.

Postcard for Wet Paint

Wet Paint has a summer postcard project each year and also has a event at the end. One of the requirements is that you have to mail the postcard to them. It’s no fair dropping it off. 

I’ve been meaning to work on a piece for it and finally did today. 

Have I mentioned lately how much I love the Neocolor II crayons. When I was doing cat in hat portraits, I was mostly using them as crayons. Lately, I’ve been playing with them as though they were watercolors. 

Last Year’s Hummingbird

 I got together with a friend today and played around with my Neocolor IIs. The first thing I worked on was a very long warm up. Next, I started working on a hummingbird drawing from a picture I took last year. Since the hubby is off playing cribbage with this family this evening, I finished it up this evening.  

In this one, I used the Neos more as though they were watercolor. I’m not sure what to do with the background, so I’m leaving it as is.