So I was tasked with doing a self-portrait chunky page for Hope this month...I gotta tell you, I am NOT my favorite subject! Unlike the other players, I was determined NOT to be so literal and use an image of myself to create my self-portrait. But, what to do, what to do?
I had been playing around with napkin transfers for an AB I was preparing for another RR and found myself drawn to an unusual Halloween themed napkin I had in my stash: a burning Jack-O-Lantern. I liked the flames. I started to tear the napkin into long strips and began gluing them down onto a 4" x 4" piece of watercolor paper. Fire, burning...They say the eyes are the windows to one's soul, so I decided to use a transparency of an eye as an overlay and came up with this very loose interpretation of "self-portrait."
I had been playing around with napkin transfers for an AB I was preparing for another RR and found myself drawn to an unusual Halloween themed napkin I had in my stash: a burning Jack-O-Lantern. I liked the flames. I started to tear the napkin into long strips and began gluing them down onto a 4" x 4" piece of watercolor paper. Fire, burning...They say the eyes are the windows to one's soul, so I decided to use a transparency of an eye as an overlay and came up with this very loose interpretation of "self-portrait."
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you are such an absolutely creative soul. I love the way you start with a concept and turn it into beautiful art.
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