However, it
was a starting point. I decided to scan it, alter it a little in photoshop, then digitally embellish it. I called the first
variation my Picasso Self Portrait. I later used a variation of it to do one of
my first art quilts, and it was used to illustrate an article I wrote for
Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine called Painting Out the Panic. I decided to add my favorite yellow fabric design behind the Picasso Self Portrait, and use that image for my business card and also for some of my mini quilt Art-O-Mat blocks.
Recently, I had an ATC trade with my Arts in the Cards group. This month, the color prompt was fuscia. I drew a blank
on the color fuscia, so I started looking through my stacks of fabrics and papers
and unfinished artwork for inspiration. Nothing really struck me, so I decided to revisit an
old theme: self portraits. For reasons I don’t fully understand, I keep coming back to my first self portrait. I have painted other self portraits over the past 12 years, but this one speaks to me the most.
I took out the yellow background and added several other fuschia designs—a
scan of a page from a journal that I painted with beet juice, a fuscia mandala
that I drew during my lunch hour, and a photo of a wet leaf on a sidewalk that
I manipulated in photoshop into shades of fuscia. I also changed some color on
the face.Since I have been enamored of the Zetti trend, I added, in photoshop, the black and white harlequin band at the top. After printing the design, it seemed to need something extra, so I added inspirational words printed on Extravorganza, along with some ribbon and seed beads.
4 comments:
Great to see so many variations on one painting.
Thanks Janet. I'm never sure if I'm doing a series/variation on a theme, or "going to the well too many times" when I rework a piece.
never.. the well is deep, very deep!
Thank you Sonja!
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