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So, I knocked this self-portrait out pretty quickly my birthday weekend. I just stood in the bathroom with my small easel and did it. I had initially planned something completely different, in fact, in order to avoid getting lost in details I painted it without any corrective lenses. (Nearsighted means my image in the mirror - about 5 feet away - was blurry, but my view of the canvas in front of me was pretty crisp.) Great idea at the time I started, but, I, of course managed to completely overwork it anyway. In all honesty, it was "done" after about 10 minutes... and I
knew it, but I just had to second guess myself, and the notion of how long a "proper" painting
should take, and, hey, what if I could
improve it, hone it,
perfect it? Ugh.... It
was perfect. The first creative blast of gestural strokes
nailed it. Oh well. I was just funnin' anyway.... On to the next!
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