It's all about me

Here are about 8 years of self-portraits - for sure I will include a self-portrait in the show.  I have a 20x30 one done in 2006 - it has hung at the Art Alliance in Red Bank and the Ridgewood Art Institute in Ridgewood NJ.  I was encouraged to regularly do self-portraits because the model is inexpensive and because this series of works is a way to document progress and changing styles.

One consideration is to show these to demonstrate the evolution of my passion (not for myself, but for the appeal of the face and portraits.) 

The 12x16 completed painting in the bottom center became the preliminary for the larger work - it won an honorable mention at The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ and appeared in their class catalog.

Based on the expressions on my face in these works I must be kind of a grump and find painting myself a taxing process.  Believe it or not these were fun to paint/draw!