My journey in self portraiture developed from a exuberant love of experimentation in oil and color. As it happened, the color didn't always reflect my current mood or state of mind while painting, but rather where I'd like my self to be. I broke open my boundaries when it came to how accurate a self portrait needed to be, and instead focused on the paint itself. This is, of course, a very familiar subject, so I felt free to experiment quickly and without hesitation.
Fall Semester: First Self Portrait. Experimenting with capturing myself acurately but pushing the colors I saw.
Detail of eyes because this other version is kind of fuzzy
Fall Semester: Quick sketch
Fall Semester: Quick, more realistic skintone sketch
Fall Semester: experiment with a desaturated palette
Fall Semester: Quick sketch of warms and cools
Spring Semester: Experimentation in color palette, light, and tactility of paint
Spring Semester: How did I get here, but do I care
Spring Semester: Complete loss of color control experiment
Spring Semester: Limited palette upon breaking up with a close friend
Spring Semester: Quick, loose color study of not knowing where I am
Spring Semester: Another quick, loose color study of my idealized form
Spring Semester: Quick color experiment of a limited palette based in no reality
Spring Semester: A gratuitous self portrait that may very well be of my sister
