This is bigger than wall size.
Gouache, alphacoal
square shaped charcoal sticks and watercolor
3 pieces joined paper that was toned with
acrylic gouache.
I added the third paper piece to put all her feet in.
Noted it was overworked, my professor said this
theme would be
done
in sepia or umber and sanguine tones with Conte.
He asked me during the group critique
“Could you have been Adam?”
Schaber talked about my sensitivity to texture, grazing
his fingers along the hairs on the nape of the neck.
Done in the mirror in 2 hours as homework.
Diptych
double self portrait
Ground sumi ink stick brushwork done with a Taihitsu and chalks from the Chasov Yar clay pits in France on Chinese rosewood bark paper.
I photographed myself in my quarters, about the third day I was in Shanghai doing an artists residency.
I experimented with the prints, putting one beside the other, moving them around until I got what I liked, to create a visual reference. Probably the best drawing in that show.
A young woman visitor insisted that
"it looks like a two guy"
and that I was a "narcissist."