In which I draw myself every day and post it here, along with selections from 30+ years of self-portraits. It's alot to look at, here are my favorites.
posted by Julia Kay at
8:48 AM
0 Comments
I think I look a bit like a French or Belgian cartoon from the 50s - Tintin maybe?Labels: 2009, Media: Non-traditional, Process: From Imagination, Process: In 15 minutes or less, Skin Tones: Yellow, Style: Young at Heart, Subject: Head, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
11:59 PM
0 Comments
-773274.jpg "'iiDraw: Whodunnit (Wearing My Mother's Tweed Deerstalker)' digital iPod Touch self-portrait by San Francisco Bay Area artist Julia Kay. (Click to view same image larger.)")
If you look closely you can see the whole drawing is made with '?' in different fonts, using the Type Drawing App on my iPod Touch. The App makes it much much easier than what those patient people who do this with manual typewriters go through! (google typewriter art for examples).Labels: 2009, Media: Digital, Media: iPod Touch, Media: iPod Typedraw, Process: Directly From a Photo, Style: Graphic, Subject: Head, Subject: Wearing a hat, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
11:56 PM
0 Comments
Well last night I stayed up too late involved in the pleasures of real paint so tonight it's a very quick digital finger painting before I fall into bed.Labels: 2009, Media: Digital, Media: iPod Colors, Media: iPod Sketchinz, Process: From Imagination, Skin Tones: Blue, Style: Graphic, Subject: Head, Subject: Wearing a hat, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
10:49 PM
0 Comments
Another entree in my art imitates art series, this is pretty much a direct copy of Alexej von Jawlensky's Dark Blue Turban (Helene with Dark Blue Turban).Labels: 2009, Faves: 2009.06, Media: Acrylic Paint, Media: Pencil/Graphite, Process: From Other Artwork, Skin Tones: Yellow, Style: Jawlensky, Subject: Head, Subject: Other Artists, Subject: Wearing a hat, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
2:09 AM
0 Comments
LHB stands for left-handed blind, which means I literally drew with my left (non-dominant) and and my eyes closed. Painting is done with my eyes open, in this case still with my left hand. Here are more self-portraits drawn with my eyes closed.Labels: 2009, Media: Pen, Media: Watercolor, Process: Blind left drawing with sighted right painting, Process: Eyes Closed, Process: Left-handed, Skin Tones: Fleshy (Cauc.), Style: Contour Lines, Subject: Head, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
11:51 PM
0 Comments
No, it's not another facebook quiz! I'll answer my own question... I'm a multi-app type. It took 3 apps to make this: TypeDrawing, Brushes & JJackson Pollock.Labels: 2009, Media: Digital, Media: iPod Brushes, Media: iPod Jackson Pollack, Media: iPod Typedraw, Process: Directly From a Photo
posted by Julia Kay at
11:52 PM
0 Comments
It's particularly hard to get small details like eyeballs, when the paint is likely to splat all over the place! I did do a sketch from a photo in Sketches, almost none of which is now visible after painting on it with the 'Jackson Pollack' app.Labels: 2009, Media: Digital, Media: iPod Jackson Pollack, Media: iPod Touch, Process: Directly From a Photo, Skin Tones: Fleshy (Cauc.), Style: Graphic, Subject: Head, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
11:52 PM
0 Comments
This was done with the 'Jackson Pollack' app on my iPod Touch. Delightfully, the paint drips in the direction you tilt, and the 'ink' 'blots' based on speed of stroke.Labels: 2009, Media: Digital, Media: iPod Jackson Pollack, Media: iPod Touch, Process: From Imagination, Skin Tones: Multi, Style: Graphic, Subject: Head, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
11:34 PM
0 Comments
Trite but true: yesterday's glory is gone, but new buds will open soon.Labels: 2009, Faves: 2009.06, Media: Pen, Media: Watercolor, Process: From Photo(s), Skin Tones: Fleshy (Cauc.), Style: Contour Lines, Subject: Hands and Feet, Subject: Narrative, Subject: Nature, Subject: With Plants, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
11:59 PM
0 Comments
posted by Julia Kay at
7:36 PM
0 Comments
I guess that's why they're called 'Day Lilies'...Labels: 2009, Faves: 2009.06, Media: Pen, Media: Watercolor, Process: From Photo(s), Style: Contour Lines, Subject: With Plants, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
11:59 PM
0 Comments
Back to my childhood tomorrow...Labels: Media: Digital, Media: iPod Brushes, Media: iPod PhotoTwist
posted by Julia Kay at
11:59 PM
0 Comments
Tomorrow skin tones and hair... Labels: Media: iPod Brushes, Media: Pen, Process: From Other Artwork, Process: From Photo(s), Style: Contour Lines, Subject: Childhood, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
11:54 PM
0 Comments
That's Bay Area painter & sculptor Manuel Neri, of course. This was based loosely on his "Untitled Figure Study No. 5, 1957".Labels: 2009, Faves: 2009.06, Media: Digital, Media: iPod Paintbook, Media: iPod Touch, Process: From Other Artwork, Skin Tones: Fleshy (Cauc.), Style: Neri, Subject: Other Artists, Subject: Standing and Sitting, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
11:59 PM
0 Comments
posted by Julia Kay at
11:06 PM
0 Comments
Artist, Analyst, Aikidoist, Alexander Technique Teacher-Trainee. Artist: I've been living, working and exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost 20 years. My subject matter ranges from portraits of people and animals to almost abstract paintings of plant forms and light. I paint in oil, acrylics, & watercolors, with oil paintsticks and watercolor markers, and with digital media such as pressure-sensitive tablet and Studio Artist software. I draw with anything I can get my hands on - sticks on wet sand and fingers on frosted windows, chunks of wood freshly burnt into charcoal and children's toys such as etch-a-sketch and magna-doodle. I also take landscape, figure, animal and street photographs, have played with printmaking (mostly monoprints) and have dabbled with sculpture in steel, wood, clay and neon. Yes, I like to play with new materials and see what I can make with them!
Subscribe to
Posts [Atom]
Scroll up and click on the links to the right to see more of The Daily Portrait Project and Julia Kay's other work. If you like what you see, please leave some comments, and click the link to Digg it!
