Is anyone out there reading this rubbish? I haven't had a comment for weeks and am beginning to feel discouraged. Gentle readers, I know there are few of you, but I do this to share the clutter in my mind and the odd things that happen in my life. If no one cares then I will leave it at the source and focus on spiritual Tarot where I have no expectations at all. C'mon you lot! Write something!
The subject of today's lecture is my self portrait which is now finished and will never be hung. Or perhaps should be hung as that will learn it! It truly is awful. I should never have started such an ambitious project in a medium I hadn't used in 46 years. It took weeks of layering over to even get the colours where they should be. The proportions are wrong. The thing looks like a face on it's way to being an apple doll. I am ashamed of myself. Those of you who have spoken of an interest in this thing can have a look if you wish but keep your pity to yourselves. I am going back to painting pears. You know where you are with a pear.
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Gentle Writer,
I always read your blog, usually several at a time. I would like to say it is because of efficiency so that I only have to log on once, but in reality it is lack of time and, if truth be known, old age and diminishing memory failing to remind me to log on.
I always enjoy reading your nuggets of wisdom as I enjoy receiving them verbally. They usually strike at the core of the matter because you see things as they are and not as we wish them to be.
I can't comment on your self-portrait as I have not seen it. I love the original, face that is, and have done so since the first time I saw it. So if there is a flaw in the painting it can only be the technique not the original.
If you get this unusually long comment from me is because I have saddled my trusty “Dragon” who does my typing so much faster than I could even though it still has trouble with my Austrian accent. It is learning though and at the same time teaching me to work on my enunciation.
Your Other Half
I also want to see the self-portrait and think that you shouldn't be so hard on yourself for working in a medium that you barely know and don't like! Even Leonardo Da Vinci mucked up when working in oils, that's why they find so many layers in his paintings (that and he was cheap, I guess).
I think you should do yourself a second self-portrait, "Artist as Pear". I'm tempted now to do a portrait of myself, "Artist as Grapefruit". I'm not using Dragon to type but I think the tylenol is interfering somewhat so I am going to stop rambling and go to sleep. @_@
P.S. If you want more comments don't phone people after you post a blog to talk about the contents!
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