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Watercolor Self Portrait Paintings: Sonaly Gandhi and Nina Tokhtaman Valetova Style
Above, you can see my latest watercolor self-portraits. I like to post them in pairs. These two painters are grouped together because they have similar styles. Gandhi does squares patterns, while Valetova does psychedelic patterns. I am first going to rant about the Gandhi style painting. Gandhi is a West Bengal, Hindu painter. She makes contemporary art and pop art. She always adds grid pattern to all her subjects. I chose to imitate her art because of this butterfly painting. I like painting butterflies. So, doing this self-portrait was just the excuse I needed to paint more butterflies. I used...
Watercolor Painting Self Portrait: Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon Style
Today, I wanted to show you my latest watercolor self-portraits. I took two selfies to use as references. I also used some of the flower photos I have in my catalogue. I photograph flowers and butterflies whenever possible. So, I had plenty of references to work with. The first painting was made Paul Gauguin style. I recently read his colorful biography. Vincent Van Gogh nearly gave him a shave that was a little too close for comfort. Needless to say, Gauguin fled to Tahiti to get away from Van Gogh. Gauguin was a French Post-Impressionism and Primitivism painter. He spread...
Watercolor Self Portrait: Rolf Armstrong and Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art
Today, I wanted to show you my latest self-portraits. These were the first set of watercolor paintings I made after getting out of the hospital. It felt nice to be able to paint again. I chose two pretty simple styles. I was trying to get back into the flow of making watercolor art on a weekly basis. The first painting I made I was mimicking the art of Rolf Armstrong. He is a bit hard to classify. I think he is pop art. The Wikipedia entry about him didn’t put him under any type of art movement. He is...
Teresita Blanco Watercolor Self Portraits: Siudmak and Beksinski Style
Today, I wanted to show you my latest watercolor self-portraits. I was mimicking the styles of two interesting surrealism painters. I chose those two paintings to mimic because they were the color blue. I was studying what I could do with just the color blue. The first painting I wanted to show you was made by Zdislav Beksinski. He does dystopian surrealism, but he has other paintings that fall under different umbrellas. This Polish painter is unique. Most of his paintings are Untitled. What you see is what you get. I like studying the works of painters that have unique...
Surrealism Self Portrait: Dali and Magritte Style Watercolor Paintings
Today, I wanted to show you my two new self-portraits. Both paintings were made with watercolors and markers. I used markers for the skin. It saves me the trouble of having to blend for skin tone. Rendering human skin with paint is a bit hard. It wastes as lot of paint trying to get it just right. So, for the sake of time, I used skin tone markers. I blend them together as I apply them in order to get the skin tone I am going for. The first painting is Salvador Dali’s Soft Self Portrait. He was often melting...