Took an online workshop recently from Zoey Frank ~~ ‘self-portraits from observation’. It was weeks long – with almost 300 students (critiqued by five or six assistants). I didn’t get around to finishing the one self-portrait I started – just made a couple of smaller studies . . . before giving up in boredom at my composition.
1st composition – too cutsie by half (or two-thirds). Oil on Arches Huile paper. 6″ x 8″. 
2d composition. oil on Arches Huile paper. 6″ x 8″. 
Enlargement of 2d composition, 1st pass. Oil on linen panel. 16″ x 20″.. 
Documenting what I was ‘observing’ in 2d composition. 
Second pass on the enlarged painting. Not sure if/when I’ll do more.composition, first pass. oil on linen panel. 16″x20″.
I’m now taking a watercolor class with Ed Praybe. He tasked us with doing THREE monochromatic self-portraits during one week – facing front & diagonally to each side. Under the short and specific deadline, I produced these three. Warning – it’s impossible to smile AND paint simultaneously, but . . . here they are anyway.
