Self Portraits Part II.

Pencils Are Perfect.

Here are some samples of the studies that we've created based off of my original self portrait. In order to achieve a piece anywhere close to perfection, our class has to experiment with colors and shading on smaller studies (cropped portions of the larger original). Here are two of mine ontop of eachother, as you can see I have used brown tempera paint on one and red tempera paint on another. I unfortunately rinsed off too much paint so the basic tinted paper was left. The paper is the lightest shade of the paint that was ontop and there is no more value. Now that I have experienced that mistake, I will of course use that into consideration for my final. I love creating texture in my pieces so I used a pointed wooden scewer to do a scratched criss-cross texture ontop of my colored pencil. Oops, I forgot to mention that we used colored pencil on top of the tempera to rework the shading and value (now you know). As you can see, my pieces are not completely done and I feel I still need some practice before I move on to the actual self portrait. I will once again leave you at that and return with more details and pictures of my progress later...

Let's Play Pretend.