Oh, I'm going to have to read that book! Can't help but wonder what life would be like with Picasso and Gauguin nowadays... would they be portrayed as "Harvey Weinsteins" - using and abusing womxn to further their careers/agendas? Did all those girls/womxn feel like they couldn't have a voice against their abusers back then? How awful.
A few years back I did 52 Portraits in 52 weeks -- a challenge I came up with. Most of them were women. And yes, some were the glassy eyed stare and other were I think what is rudely described as "resting b$tch face". In other words, I'm not smiling beatifically 'cause I don't want to... I'm going to have to go back and see how many are one versus the other.
That project sounds amazing! When I did my self-portraiture series I used to take a snap shot of myself first thing in the morning and then paint from that image. Mostly my face was crumpled from side-sleeping and my hair like a bird's nest lol. I prefer those paintings to the ones where deliberately didn't paint my wrinkles.
As I seem to have perpetual birds nest hair maybe my next thing should be self portraits? I am eyeing Misty’s class. I did her Immigrant Portraits one.
Oh, I'm going to have to read that book! Can't help but wonder what life would be like with Picasso and Gauguin nowadays... would they be portrayed as "Harvey Weinsteins" - using and abusing womxn to further their careers/agendas? Did all those girls/womxn feel like they couldn't have a voice against their abusers back then? How awful.
No. More.
A few years back I did 52 Portraits in 52 weeks -- a challenge I came up with. Most of them were women. And yes, some were the glassy eyed stare and other were I think what is rudely described as "resting b$tch face". In other words, I'm not smiling beatifically 'cause I don't want to... I'm going to have to go back and see how many are one versus the other.
That project sounds amazing! When I did my self-portraiture series I used to take a snap shot of myself first thing in the morning and then paint from that image. Mostly my face was crumpled from side-sleeping and my hair like a bird's nest lol. I prefer those paintings to the ones where deliberately didn't paint my wrinkles.
As I seem to have perpetual birds nest hair maybe my next thing should be self portraits? I am eyeing Misty’s class. I did her Immigrant Portraits one.