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I unfortunately don't have any other way to contact you and I don't know how much you are going to check padlet. I hope you are feeling better soon. You and your family will be in my prayers. :)

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2020 is tough, sending and praying all the positivity I can ever fathom and muster to your end.

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I think I really like this one! It was absolutely painful to control the amount of paint or where the paint would land.

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Palette Knife Painting, Fifth Self Portrait

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Palette Knife Painting, Fifth Self Portrait

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Painting without brushes was challenging! I had fun with it though.

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I am much happier with this one compared to my last pointillism painting.

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To be honest, I am not a fan of this painting. After completing it, I took another shot at pointillism.

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I enjoyed painting this one! I liked how I could add my own spin by changing the hat and scarf to those that I wear, but kept the colors of the scar and representation of the hat.

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Third Self Portrait Inspo: Barkley L. Hendricks

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Third Self Portrait Inspo: Barkley L. Hendricks

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Painting this second one was a challenge. Painting at a side-ish view took a lot of patience. Although I exactly like what I painted, I do like how I captured the ends of my hair.

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I struggled a lot with this one; getting the finer details in wasn't really working out.

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Still looks creepy but it looks complete. I also tried to be more loose with my marks.

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I believe the patch of color between the forehead and chin are too pale and pink. I admire the shadow I was able to show. This is also my largest painting, and I decided to include the cabinet behind me to fill in the space on the right. I really  liked filling in the negative space of my ponytail and neck. I also added the two moles that I see more prominently on my face.

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I felt like this was the best I was able to capture the shading and color of the face so I left it as is for the face.

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This is rough, to be perfectly honest. I had two different ways of thinking somewhere halfway through painting this.
It definitely took away some of my control with the palette knives since it's so rigid of a tool.

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I painted my face a combination of pink and purple.

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The texture is more prominent in person.

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It was cold when I painted this so I tried to show the folds in my hoodie but struggled a bit

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The painting by Frida Kahlo which I used as my inspiration depicted her and her pet monkey so I made my own portrait of myself and my cat c:

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The glasses sit a bit too high and I plan to alter them with the paint. I intend to lay down the variations in skin color first than return to add in varying colors to enhance the different hues of the skin tone

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Took a break / separation from the pointillism to have some fun with this? I may do another sub-painting later where I don't look in the mirror at all and go from memory.

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Self Portrait #3 - Van Gogh w/ Revisions

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Self Portrait #3 - Van Gogh w/ Revisions

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I fixed the shoulders.

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The dots aren't as clean/round as I would've liked, but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.

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i am not really sure if i am doing this right or if it is too brush like.

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David Hockney
Scott Naismith
Elena Efremova

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since my front yard is not very interesting I will be painting from photo references of places I have been to.

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I will be using Mary Cassatt.

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Painting #3 Progress (Unfinished Fence) 

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Painting #3 Progress (Unfinished Fence) 

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It's too dark, I'll try to block with colors that are lighter.

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I made the eyes too far apart, it's probably because I made the glasses overlap the right side of the portrait.

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Why it took me so long to figure out that my lips were far too large in the first sketch attempt for the painting, I'm not sure. There's always something.
I read in one of the articles that it was traditionally without mixing any paint so I started trying to use compliments to achieve a darkness in my shirt — but that didn't work in a way that I was enjoying.
I moved on to the background and used my handy-dandy Q-tips to layer yellow, white, and burnt umber.
*I'd like to gesso the shirt area and start again because it's bleh

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Pointillism Portrait (in class progress)

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Pointillism Portrait (in class progress)

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Here are two tracings I have done to help me understand what my face looks like from a side point of view, since this is what I will be trying to do for the second painting.

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Samantha Ho

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I began to do the background first as I had done with the previous painting. Strangely enough, this one is actually tougher to do. The artist chooses colors that visibly overlap, and there are places where her brush strokes look incomplete. So, it is a bit tough to replicate. I also struggled with beginning to paint my face as I am trying to do a side angle. I stopped painting my face and did two tracings from side angles to help me understand my face from this point of view better.

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(Andy Warhol)

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I think I had the most trouble with transitioning the tones across the face where it gets much darker on the right side of the portrait. You can see that on the forehead area.

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I somehow ended up combining my own chin with Thiebaud's. Nonetheless I think I did very well is trying to use Thiebaud's colors. I used a blue background instead of cream pink. I did my best to show how his strokes liked to follow along features.

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I did my best to capture the similar palette to Becker's self-portrait (see in collage below) as well as her simply graphic yet textured (blobby rounded brush).
It's not quite the 3/4 View as I had been sitting.

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Corbet

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Baba

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Titian

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I need to make some adjustments to my facial features; I might make those adjustments with paint.

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I don’t really like the way the eyes came out this time. There's just something about them. Same with the eye brows. I tried to go for a more abstract look on the shirt with really quick brush strokes and not totally filled in but now it looks like the hair is outlined in green so not really sure about that. But I think I like the rest of it!

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Painting this was TOUGH. I used one of my plants as inspiration for the background, and painted some flowers on the top of my head like she often would do. I painted my face last because I was really nervous about doing so. Although the painting doesn't exactly look at me, I feel most proud of this painting than any other I have done before :-)

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I had some trouble replicating Vermeer's soft style with acrylic paints and have some area's where my facial anatomy is off but it's a start!

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This painting has been a struggle because at first I was doing the painting in all shades of green (inspired by Gustave Courbet) but it ended up looking very strange so I changed it. I've changed the colors a bunch of times. It was hard to tell what worked with this painting.

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I added a couple more little details around the eyes. This painting was inspired by Paul Cezanne.