Have my portrait painted

My grandmother painted portraits of all of her grandchildren as kids. She is a great artist, and the painting of me is something I really appreciate.

Might paint my own portrait…....

Who wouldn’t want a portrait painted? Perhaps it’s old-fashioned, but I think it would be great.

So after long thought I dusted my acrylic paints and brushes off the shelf and went to work on a picture of myself. I’ve never painted before and was surprised at how natural it felt. It was very relaxing and a great way to try something different from which I’m all about.

yes mel i am that vain lol i have always wanted to have an old fashioned portrait down, i guess its the romantic in me.

I wish I knew how to link it to this entry but…you can see it on my 43people page. It’s amazing! I love it and I’am so appreciative of coffeholic for doing it. She’s a very talented artist.

last July in S. Petersburg. The town is full of artists, at least they all think they are, but mostly it’s just a way to make one feel guilty for having some money instead of living for Art. I didn’t like it but it’s obvious that the last changes in the economical and social situation have put many people in a lot of difficulty. The status of artist can be useful, somehow, it gives a justification for poverty, it covers it with some high principle like the one Art offers, it let the so called artists frown on the consumistic society, so that they aspire also to be moral guides. Couldn’t stand them, though pitying them. One of these kind of people, very young, very excited, very female looking like a male (I wondered about malnutrition), decided at about one in the morning to take a portrait of me.
That was an awful idea, the light was just above my head making strange shadows on my face, I was very tired and didn’t have any interest in it. She painted me yellow (well, i guess I probably was yellow with anger, realizing she just wanted me to feel obliged to buy then some of her works. I didn’t, of course.).

I’m going to be talking to that artist in the next few weeks (about an unrelated subject) ... we’ll see if he can stil fit me in into one of his sessions…

and is an amazing painter but he’s also color blind. he wanted to surprise me because i’ve wanted my portrait painted for a long time. after getting started he wanted to be sure the color was right so he had me take a peek. it was really yellow. i almost did’nt have the heart to tell him but of course i had to. he wanted it to be perfect because i have very fair skin. well, after he realized it was super yellow he got discouraged. i told him i’d pick out the right color but he’s too scuurrred.

...it was drawn rather than painted, but close enough. It was my first weekend in Paris, I went up to the Sacre Coeur in Montmartre and let myself be persuaded into it by one of the artists there. He drew me in a far more flattering way than I’d have drawn myself, and I hadn’t been planning to buy it, but then I thought what a nice souvenir it would be of my first few days in Paris. So I ended up buying it and am glad I did!