Jean-Michel Basquiat

I am loving Jean Michel Basquiat paintings. His self-portrait is so beautiful rich in colour full stop I was drawn to it after looking at ideas about painting my face or body in its various degrees of anatomy. As in a series of self portraits possibly the first one with me as I am, then […]

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Skinless self painting 

Started painting this skinless portrait. Using Reds it wasn’t really working for me. Using references for the muscles in the face is not the way I now want to go so now I just really want to make this very colourful. Continue to paint using various different colours wrong and being anatomically correct, I have […]

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Self consciousness

Usually as I paint there is an enjoyment  in the process. But as I come to the end of a painting there can be this sense of self consciousness. Or a sense of dissatisfaction that comes about what has been produced.  Starting to learn that it doesn’t matter. That whatever is produced is what has […]

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