In which I draw myself every day and post it to this blog, along with selections from 30+ years of self-portraits. It's alot to look at, here are my favorites.
Inspire App on my iThing.
Directly from a photo.
I tried this a couple time and over a couple sessions, but still, probably not more than 30 - 45 minutes.
Another split-shadow piece, but on the iThing and in color, instead of black and white in ink.
posted by Julia Kay at
12:56 AM
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.
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2 Comments:
Hi Julia,
your Daily portrait project is teriffic. I wish I had the time and discipline to create a project of this scope.
thanks for sharing,
Jose Campos
Thanks, Jose!
I actually started the project because I didn't have time. I wasn't managing to have long stretches in the studio to work on big pieces, so I decided to try doing something small and easy in 15 minutes(or less)/day. I never set a goal for how many days I'd keep it up, just let it find it's own path. Some days I really do something quick like draw 5 lines and call it my philtrum, and other days I get more involved. In any event, I suggest that you do whatever work you can, whenever you can, like putting a nickel in a jar, and over time you find it adds up to something without ever having had to commit to 'discipline and scope'. And most of all - I hope you have fun doing whatever you do!
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