paint a portrait

I’ve already done this, really… I painted the Beatles twice: Once in their sgt Pepper’s outfits and once in just red, black and white. But it’s so typical to paint famous faces :P

Now I want to paint a real person, someone close to me – And it just so happens I recently set up some colours for a picture of my grandad (well whaddaya know!) and closer to my heart is hard to get.

So, I should be able to get this done within time; I’m done with my finals tomorrow, so I might just start the day after.

I sit and stare at the blank canvas, and spit on it. Why? Cause I can’t come up with anything to paint. If I have an idea, I’d worry about messing up the pretty canvas.

Sometimes I get inspired to paint such lovely pictures, but my hands want to make splotches. AH…..someday….

Started a painting of me and my sister, based off a photo of us when we were children.
It’s a sweet photograph, both of us flashing smiles, her looking like her typical mischievous self.
So far I have sketched the photo onto one of my canvasses, and painted the background black. So, off to a very small start. I’ll take pictures of its progress perhaps.

Did a self portrait- the eyes came out a little funny, so I’ll probabely revisit it, but that’s the great thing about oils.

everyone should do it.
even if it looks crappy at first.

This is absolutely nerdy, but its occurred to me I’d be done by now if this goal didn’t say “paint”

http://www.dnaartistry.com/

This is my line of work – day in and day out at the lab I work at, I extract DNA from mice, rats, ferrets, rabbits, dogs, and humans, replicate them via a Polymerase Chain Reaction, and run gel electrophoresis.

You stick each little sample of DNA into a square of agar and set a charge to the agar gel, in a pool of buffer. DNA is negatively charged, so it floats through the gel to the positive end of the pool. The agar is stained with Ethidium Bromide. It glows under UV light, and the special polaroid we use pictures it and does exactly what this stupid website is selling (for a tiny fraction of what they’re charging!!) Each band is a gene, and each person’s/animal’s will be different. This is the same technique used by crime labs, etc, to match a person to a sample from a crime.

I swear, if I ever need to make a self portrait for any art class of mine, I’m going to see if I can get away with this. This is my nerdness, defined by a soulful scientific masterpiece. Yup.

My cat peed in the vicinity of the beginnings of my real portrait because I gave him a bath today and he’s pissed, and its airing outside. Probably not salvageable, but oh well. Bigger fish to fry currently.

I’m working on it. This is a portrait of my friend in a toga; a present for her fiancee’s 21st birthday. I was listening to way too many graphic novel-cum-movie soundtracks when I started this, so it came out weird.

I have a sketch.

This is saying something for me. I’ve been too busy knitting and being crafty to bother with drawing or painting.

Do this since setting my eyes upon the first Modigliani painting (“Girl in Polka Dot Blouse”) I’ve ever seen. In the same style, with the vacant eyes.

a late valentine’s day present. i’d still be working on it if it was here, but i’ll never be satisfied with it. i worked until my brushes were destroyed and decided it wasn’t going to get any better.