Self portrait project

                           Selfish Portrait

                          Picture

                     
                          Ramon Mati Alsina, Self portrait  1875
                          MNAC  Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
                         

                           Paul Cezanne, Self Portrait with felt hat  1890
                           Bridgestone Museum of Art Ishibashi




                          
          I  chose the three pieces for individual reasons, starting with the one you don't see, "Yawning"  by Joseph Ducreux 1783, (file picture was to big to load). A picture of a stout man dressed in a red suit, think British soldier  in revolutionary war, arms stretched in a yawn, a wonderful variation on a portrait.  
         Paul Cezanne's self portrait was telling, an unassuming old man in a non-descript suit with a gaze that asks 'what are you looking at'.
         The most inspiring was by Ramon Mati Alsina, the look, the eyes and the incredible detail of the face was inspirational although it made my try incredibly simplistic.

         Pencil was the easiest medium it allowed erasing.

         The challenges, attempting to draw. Trying to overcome.

         My representation was not what you would want to use for a missing persons sketch.

         I used lines to represent the face and attempted to use shade of light to give depth to the image.
         
         There was some enjoyment in the process and the final product, which was at least not completely horrible, but I need a lot more practice to be satisfied with any self portrait.