These were my first two nude self portraits. The one with bl..
Added 2023-02-21 17:22:00 +0000 UTCThese were my first two nude self portraits. The one with black background is the very first one. It is pieced together from two images because I didn’t know how to take a full body selfie without my phone being in the image. (Now I just screenshot a video) I took a picture holding it in each hand then painted the half of each without the phone. It created a bit of a perspective shift that was frustrating but that got me focused on the painting instead of the fact that I was really looking at my body for the first time. (That one is also painted using an old painting technique I was experimenting with at the time that uses a green under painting with glazed color on top.) The second was a painting I did while most of my stuff was packed up so we could sell our house. I kept out large tubes of phalo blue and white and a couple small others so I could play around. It gave me something to focus on besides the move. The image came from a request I fulfilled from a man on Reddit. My hair was multicolored at the time but it’s exaggerated in the painting. I stopped coloring it like that because it was destroying my hair. It was fun though.
