self portrait sketches 6x9

 Apparently my favorite subject is myself. I am after all the most available and also cheapest model I know. These two little sketches were done 3 years apart. The top was done in one sitting while the bottom done over a few sittings. They were both started rather spontaneously (my favorite way to start anything). The top was done with a limited palette: Burnt Sienna, Cad Scarlet, Cad orange, Ultramine blue and Titanium white. While the bottom was done with the much broader Incamminati palette consisting of about 20 colors.

self portrait

6x9

oil on board

2013

self portrait

6x9

oil on canvas

2010

Self Portrait

Toto and I

30x40

oil on canvas

I worked on this painting for the better part of three months, logged in about 260 hours. Probably my most ambitious portrait to date. Feeling pretty good about it. Hope folks like it.