so, in honor of valentine's day, the portrait party will celebrate the greatest love of all with an entire month of self-portrait parties. draw yourself. share the results. self-portraits will be posted until midnight on february 29th.
(feel free to share your portrait swaps also. i will resume posting them in march.)
i think this self-portrait by steven "ribs" weissman is an appropriate send off to the self-portrait party. tomorrow morning, the portrait SWAPS resume!
kerstin, champion of the last minute portrait swap, sent her self-portrait in the nick of time.
i don't speak petty's language as well as i'd like to but this self portrait did come with a caption that i could read, "de Munich a Salzburgo," from munich to salzberg.
with her self-portrait, maggie asks "what do you expect from half of a blind contour?" uh... great eyelashes, i guess.
my old art director, fran, finally caved to my demands and drew a quick, one minute self-portrait. thanks, fran. now... and this is subliminal, mind you... draw dan!
this is one of MANY self-portraits by 3MW. she submitted a different one but this one offered an insight to self-portraiture that i couldn't pass up.
andre used this self-portrait to explore the many brush tools in the new illustrator creative suite software. nice, but i am much more impressed by the 62 other self-portraits that he included as an afterthought.
in an effort to take her homework seriously, alanna submitted THREE drawings to the self-portrait party. psst, alanna, partying is not work.
poor senta. this is how she had to spend her weekend: recovering from the loss of her wisdom teeth.
my old friend, connie, gave her students a self-portrait project. she couldn't resist painting one of her own. "turns out that blick student grade tempera can mix some pretty great colors," she said.
this self-portrait by meg came with a quote by frederick franck: "I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen and that, when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is."
priya drew this self-portrait at two a.m. while listening to a beethoven sonata after having polishing off half a large devil's food cake while drinking some french wine called cinsault-grenache and something something about a "wills classic milds ciggie." her fans want to know: was she possessed by the devil's food cake?
this is a self-portrait of lois but not really. because the painting is still in progress and lois might not be the artist's real name. mystery!
ruth sent a self-portrait so small that i needed reading glasses to see it. (i don't own reading glasses.) "thanks for this bit of exposure," she said. exposure?! ruth, no one can see this! thankfully, she sent the giganto version a few minutes later. if you're gonna show off, gang, SHOW OFF!
and laugh off the gaffs the way ruth does!
more of a collage than a drawing, chris used photobooth to grab his image and tweak it beyond recognition. what would joseph cornell do with this technology, i wonder?
even though self-portraits are daunting, shannon rose to the challenge and painted this one as a valentine for the portrait party. thanks, shannon!
regarding his self-portrait, arran said "the thing is i couldn't get my hair color right."
danny g., the patron saint of drawing for fun, did this self-portrait about his bothersome head. sketchbooks are perfect for this kind of navel gazing. ... ahem, and books about sketchbooks are awesome too.
my best friend, simon, is always reluctant to explain his work but you'll have to take our word for it that this really is a self-portrait.
look between the tree branches to find pearl's self-portrait. it sounds like a poem but it's a fact.
mister wertz gets extra credit because his self-portrait is an homage to this self-portrait by max beckmann.
peggy lives in north wisconsin "where all the men hunt and the women do crafts." she painted this self-portrait to affirm that she is also a gun-toting maniac.
this drawing of christine is framed and hangs in my office so that i can brag to anyone who visits. "my wife draw that! it's a self-portrait."
(she has dozens of self-portraits hidden in her sketchbooks. they document new haircuts, outfits, moods, and experiments.)
norman rockwell's self-portrait, one of the best superstar self-portraits of all time, was published forty-eight years ago today on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
(eagle-eyed viewers take note of the miniaturized self-portraits of durer, rembrandt, picasso, and van gogh at the corner of rockwell's easel.)
my friend, jeremie, was one of the first people that i knew who used a computer to make art. when we were in college, it blew my mind that he had a pc in his dormroom. ten years later, he still has to explain computer stuff to me. this self-portrait was drawn from his apple camera, for example. "what's apple camera?" i had to ask.
bethany draws portraits in charcoal mostly but she tried acrylics for this self-portrait. "it's nice to pick up a brush," she said, and the portrait "kinda looks like me."
one of my all-time favorite drawings is this self-portrait by one of my all-time favorite artists, my brother.
i had to bully lindsay into letting me post this self-portrait instead of another nice-but-less-self-portraity drawing. it reminded me of a few portrait exchanges that i did in college when friends gave me drawings, suddenly became embarassed by the drawings, but i refused to give them back. i guess i'm kind of stubborn. sorry, lindsay, but thank you for indulging me. this drawing is so much better for the self-portrait project and the process was weird and fascinating.
this is one of about a thousand self-portraits that little mithi's been drawing. i'm tempted to post the lot of them but her blog deserves your traffic. so, i'm restraining myself. (this one isn't even my favorite of the bunch.)
mim loves drawing herself because she can give her model purple hair and not worry about the repercussions. you're a nutty one, mim stella!
for her first drawing class last year, jennifer drew a self-portrait. she was pleasantly surprised.
our friend, cindy woods, had surgery yesterday. her nephew, evan, drew this self-portrait as a get well card.
here is my most recent self-portrait. i drew it to document a poorly grown beard before i shaved it away. the detail that surprised me most is the rogue hair that i found in my eyebrow. i've seen it before and combed it down but, upon discovering it in a portrait, i think i'll let it go wild.
