Self portrait created outside from view(below). Gouache paints.
Self portrait. Taken at 6:10 am
This morning I decided to experiment more with my portraits and do something a little different. I looked up the time of sunrise in my local area and headed out early to find a quiet spot to produce a painting. I thought this piece would be interesting as it is at a completely different time of day compared to my two previous days of working. I enjoyed doing this part of the project as I felt quite scenic painting at such an early time and the vision of the sunrise really inspired the colours/textures I used within my painting. I decided this time that I would experiment with the angle and composition of my self portrait by doing something a little different and drawing myself from behind. What I found was that my attention was drawn to the sunset and landscape rather than me as a person and this context of the piece I found rather refreshing as an artist. I also like the fact that the location of this work is a key factor to why the piece is so successful as it gives the viewer a more clear vision of the kind of person I am even though they can see very little of me. It seems more real and spontaneous rather than staged, as my last two pieces seemed to be.
Location snaps:
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