Self Portraits

A self portrait is more than just a reflection of what a person looks like, it’s a window into how the artist interprets their inner self and the world around them.

There are also many practical reasons one might choose for making self portraits, one would be you get a model who is always available and works for free.

Painting a self portrait requires us to ask ourselves the most basic question: Who am I?

What expression, pose, colors, clothing, texture, and style best represents the real me?

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Self Portraits
500 years of male self portraits in western art

“It is paint’s organic nature that helps me to understand life. For within the act of painting there is a history, a continuum of alchemy through the Ages that lives on in paint”. – Lori Agostino

“Everything we paint is a statement about ourselves”. -Mark Davis

“In painting I want to say something comforting in the way that music is comforting”. -Vincent van Gogh

“In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration”. -Wassily Kandinsky