Self Portraits: Day 12

Coloured pencil, pastel and charcoal on canvas
Music - The Cure

Pastel on papaer
Music - The Cure

Pastel and charcoal on newsprint
Music - The Cure

Pastel on newsprint
Music - The Cure

Pastel and charcoal on newsprint
Music - The Cure

Pastel on newsprint
Music - The Cure

Self Portraits: Day 11

Wow, there are going to be so many of these daily self portrait posts by the time this semester ends. Today I decided to paint with my face...sort of.  I smeared  paint on my face and then smashed my face into a piece of canvas.  This wound up producing quite a few self portraits because I was filming myself and taking photos throughout the process.  Here are some of the photos:

And this is the canvas:

Self Portraits: Day 10

Charcoal & acrylic on newsprint
Music - Billy Joel & Paul McCartney

Pastel & charcoal on newsprint
Music - John Denver & Kenny Rogers

Self Portraits: Day 9

Ink & pastel on paper
Music - The Black Keys

Charcoal & pastel on canvas
Music - The Black Keys

Conté & pastel on newsprint
Music - The Black Keys

Work in Progress
Oil on canvas
Music - The Black Keys

Self Portraits: Day 8

Conté, pastel & charcoal on paper
Music - Black Sabbath

Charcoal & pastel on newsprint
Music - Black Sabbath

Charcoal & pastel on newsprint
Music - Black Sabbath & Devil in a Woodpile

Charcoal on canvas
Music - Devil in a Woodpile

Self Portraits: Day 7

Charcoal & pastel on paper
Music - Bob Dylan

Charcoal & pastel on paper
Music - Conor Oberst

Pastel on newsprint
Music - Neko Case

Acrylic & chalk on paper
Music - Conor Oberst

Acrylic & pastel on paper
Music - Conor Oberst & Bob Dylan

Graphite on paper
Music - Bob Dylan

Self Portraits: Day 6

Ink and coloured pencil on paper
Music - Django Reinhardt

- Work in progress -
Oil on canvas
Music - Charlie Parker

Self Portraits: Day 5

Today was quite a productive day.

Pastel and coloured pencil on black & white photocopy

Music - Calexico

This is the reverse side of the previous picture, it picked up a lot of chalk from the table

Pastel and acrylic on newsprint

Music - Calexico and The Black Angels

Graphite and pastel on paper

Music - The Black Angels and Into Another

Pastel on black & white photocopy

Music - Into Another

Graphite and pastel on newsprint

Music - The Fiery Furnaces

Acrylic, graphite, coloured pencil and pastel on board

Music - The Fiery Furnaces

Self Portraits: Day 4

Acrylic and charcoal on paper

While working on this I was listening to the distant sounds of Elton John, Bob Seger, Paul McCartney and Willie Nelson coming from the other room.

Self Portraits: Day 3

I was listening to a bit of Andrew Bird while messing with the colour, contrast, etc...

Self Portraits: Day 2

Pastel and acrylic on paper

Pastel on newsprint

Graphite and coloured pencil on paper

I was listening to Iggy Pop while working on these.

Day 1: The First Of Many

For my "What Is A Self Portrait?" project I have challenged myself to create at least one self portrait a day for the duration of the semester.  I plan on posting these each day, here are the first of many more to come.

Acrylic, charcoal and pastel on paper

This one was done while listening to Stuff Smith and Jimmy Smith

Acrylic, charcoal and pastel on paper

I was listening to Iron and Wine while working on this one.