Monday, November 30, 2009

Self Portrait

With all your lovely comments I thought I'd better report on my progress of 'the selfy'. Been playing grandma all weekend so I didn't have any studio time till today. As portraiture is relatively new to me its very slow going. I still want to use text and I still want to do all my layering and of course it has to be BIG. I want to put text and stamping etc in the shapes made by shadows etc and this will be like my underpainting (if that makes sense) and then I will paint a more realistic (ha hopefully) portrait on top. Well today I played around with the shapes that fit together and make me look like me. Still not entirely happy with what I've got but its getting there. I haven't started on the canvas yet. Still experimenting and playing around. I will share more with you when I have something to share. Anyway I have made a start and its so exciting and fun and scary all at once. I just love making art **insert big cheesy grin here**

7 comments:

Laura said...

I'm standing by waiting and excited too!

Suz said...

Uta I can't wait!
We are as excited as you are
your fan club awaits the unveiling
grandma duty huh?

Doris said...

Me too! We will have drum roll for the unveiling!

Doris said...

I'm certain that will be followed by confetti and whistles!

Uta said...

The pressure, the pressure hehehe

Elena said...

I'm really excited to see what's next. I still remember SOMEONE being worried she was going to run out of ideas after the first gallery showing. So glad you filled the well.

By the way, I am curious about the method you described. Are your backgrounds collage? Do you then paint over that? Oh and thank you so very much for your kind comment about my family collage. hugs

Uta said...

Elena,
In my backgrounds I use old book pages or newspaper or other interesting papers. Sometimes I use altered paper etc. Then I usually do some stamping with rubber stamps either patterned or text and some washes of colour. I then paint and draw the object on top allowing the background to show through.