Self Portrait (altered photo)
All you can bring to art is yourself; every discovery is a self discovery.
" I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
Frieda Kahlo
White Profile (altered photo of painting)
"Is it not the artist who -like our dreams- dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialties?"
Dorothy Norman
Abstract Self Portrait
"When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstacting more and more, you must end up with an egg."
Pablo Picasso
" A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."
John Singer Sargent
Self Critic
Making art is its own consolation. Why obsess about perfection or acclaim?
Everyone Is A Village
What face did you bring to your work today?
Drawing Inspiration
"Art is prayer--not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world. Marc Chagall was once ased if he attended a synagogue; he answered that his work is prayer."
Joseph Zinker, Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy
