Online Gallery Notes, April 2, 2020

Joanne Radmilovich Kollman: Self Portrait painted April 1

Regina Atwood: My contribution to #painting4thursdays

Celeste Bergin: I painted this self portrait for the challenge. “Infinite horizons infinite dreams”.  I am also showing a recent painting I did during zoom conferencing in Za’s class. It was a unique experience to be “in class” online. I painted from a still life in my front room. 

Dana Belisle: I included my daughter and granddaughter.  It's entitled "My hair is blonde, Gramma Dana.  Yours is brown.

Marti Brandtner: A self portrait, graphite and white conte'...Call me the chicken lady!!

Kimberly Chai: Finished at 12:44am. Can’t remember the last time I did a self portrait.

Thom Cheney: A digital painting I just finished on my iPad using the Procreate app. I like the variety of brushes. I took the pic last summer when we visited Baltimore. The Chesapeake Lighthouse Ship is moored in the harbor there. I took a ton of reference images because I knew I wanted to paint it later.

Tedd Chilless:  I am attempting to capture the emotional response to color, scale and proportions. I wanted to paint something light and pleasant. ("Light Beyond the Storm”) ...Hopefully, we will see the light very soon. Self Portrait:

“Sky Is Falling-I am Staying Inside” 12”x15” Charcoal (Portrait-Alla Prima Portland Challenge) 

Stephanie Cissna: This is my most recent self portrait, in pencil.  It is so much more difficult to do a self portrait than one of any other person!   Mirrors and cameras do not seem to reveal what I expect to look like.

Mark Ivan Cole: "Self-Portrait in Self-Quarentine" Various soft pastels on Fabriano Elle Erre, 10x8" Painting 2: "Respite" Various soft pastels on Fabriano Elle Erre, 10x8" Pause; breathe. Look around, slowly, and breathe again. May you experience the respite you need.

Hilarie Couture: I painted this from life in my studio in November. It is in pastel on uart that had a demo image on it and I literally rinsed off the paper with a hose, let it dry and then painted right over the top in pastel..Uart is a beast of a paper! Great stuff!

Tom Daniels: Self-portrait during quarantine.

Serena Dinsmore: Selfie, anyone? Stay well.

Richard Eaton: Cooper Mountain Preserve 18x24 Acrylic Nice to be home...started this last year, just finished.

Geri Graley:  “Gonna go to the five ‘n dime and take a ‘look-see’”. Graphite on Bristol paper, 11x14”. And here is my self portrait, charcoal on Bristol paper, 8x12”. I look a bit grim, but I was actually feeling quite cheerful inside. It must be showing the intensity of my making the drawing!

Paula Hansen: I been working on value keys in Za’s class. This exercise shows some of the different moods that can be created by value. “When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us”.

--- John O'Donohue

Dotty Hawthorne: A couple of gouache studies of a visit to Hug Beach near Cannon Beach a couple of weeks ago.

Cynthia Jeffrey: My contribution to the self portrait thingy.

Tara Kemp: I accepted a challenge to paint a self portrait. This one is 16 x 20", oil on canvas, from a photo taken a few years ago. Painting 2: "Dancer", 18 x 24", oil on aluminum panel. Several painter pals painted together on ZOOM from fabulous reference photos provided by Short Dog Studio in PA. What a great salve for the isolation!

Kimberly Kent: Encaustic on paper

Bhavani Krishnan: Ok Celeste how funny coz I was just thinking of challenging you to a cartoon self portrait....I did the first one with Heather Martin's live demo .. she had some great tips on tooning oneself... it’s me and Reagan... the second one was my previous attempt at caricature.... the third one was part of instagram #toonme challenge where you paint over a photo and show part of it... So I am very new to caricature so they don’t really look like me but it’s fun.... all were done with procreate on iPad Pro.

Robin Laughlin: Ok, so here goes. My answer to the self portrait challenge. Got some hard news this last week. So here’s how I feel, in paint. Lots of gray, a fair bit of black, a junko outside my studio and the trees and ferns nearby. And a tiny bit better for having said it all in paint.

Paul Lockhart: Paul Self portrait 18"x24" Acrylic on Canvas

Jaqueline Lukowski: I'm inspired by the great work here. so here is my self portrait. I need a lot more practice! 5 x 7 graphite and a little white pastel.

Scott McCallister: Central Oregon Cattails. Watercolor

Lisa Moss Marshall:  Not a blind contour drawing, but a contour drawing from a handheld mirror

Simran Narmis: All right, I'll throw a selfie into the ring. This one was done during a zoom meeting with myself (instead of a mirror). Oil on board.

Cindy Marsh: Self portrait of my depression a few years ago.

Ken Mazzochi: Hi Everyone. I Love my new art studio, down the hall from Brenda. I get to leave home daily to paint, isolated and safe. Also started radiation, 2 tx down and 31 to go. I'm so grateful to have art and all of our like minded people. 🎨💚Ken Mazzochi

Mary McNeil: I needed to do something bright & cheery this week

Kristie Mooney: I never do self portraits

Sandra Pearce: Here's to sunnier days ahead! Sunflower Serenade  30 x 22 in, Watercolor. One in a new series of full sheet sunflowers. I went to a sunflower field and all these titles were being whispered and shouted out to me by the flowers - I got so excited! This sunflower seemed to be serenading the crowd beyond...

Mike Porter: Today’s effort. Will do a larger single blossoms next.

Ward Jene Stroud: I’ll keep working on the concept. I never paint for me. I always paint things I can teach and that I feel my students can grow from. I just hope I have classes to teach...🙂

Chris Rectenwald: 2 self-portraits, 2 different perspectives.

Teresa Regil: self portrait

Donna Sanson: Self portraits - one from 35 years ago for a college assignment and one for the April 2 painting post. Both are watercolor with a focus on warm/cool colors and a variety of watercolor techniques. I referred to the old to create the new.  Donna

Jeffrey Scherer: Self Portrait with iPhone. Self Portrait in profile. Oil on linen. #3 She wondered, quietly and sadly, when this would all end. Oil on linen.  

Raphael Schnepf: Christmas Cactus Blossoms 14" x 11" oil on muslin board. Blossy 8" x 8" oil on muslin board. #3 Selfie in Quarentine 11" x 9" graphite & white pencil on toned paper. 

George Schweser : Here is my entry for PaintingThursday . It is pencil ( 2,6 & 8 B plus white pastel )on 9 x12 toned pastel paper .

Kristina Sellers: Here is my contribution! It is #18 of a series of 20 floral paintings I'm working on.

Dianna Shyne: Summer Gate 20" x 16" Finished this painting last night...

Donna Sires: My daughter’s friend Andrea posted this picture of her chickens, Pizzarella and Opal, and it just made me laugh. I painted it as a surprise for her and just giggled the entire time I painted it. What fun during sequestering times!
“Dreadwing Behemoth” 12” x 12” pastel painting by Donna Sires

Nancy Smith_Klos: White Lily 12 x 12" wc

Donna Stevens: This is a draft. If I'm gonna make a "selfie", I'm not gonna do it alone. Some beings created by Katie McFadden joined me for a photo op to use for the self-portrait. I started having fun and lost track of time. I plan to redo it and adjust the placements and proportions, etc. #2 Plein air sketch during a last escape in mid-March (camping in a yurt and observing social distancing).

Jim Syfert: Busy week painting/drawing, helping my wife with masks, peaceful walks in our neighborhood park (very few people out and about). Staying isolated, quiet, and well. Time seems valuable and enjoying each moment. Kind of think this is more what we should be doing instead of the world telling us to go, go, go, do this, do that, etc. Relationships, friendships, neighbor have been manageable through conference calls, safe distance conversations over the neighbor fences, Internet or telephone calls. Caution and respect for what this virus can do, but no fear. Have a blessed day, take care AND stay healthy. Paintings from the week plus Alla Prima Portland Self portrait challenge, pencil.

Harley Talkington: Paintings from Tim Young's photographs and Self portrait in pastel pencil. My first since high school.

Joanne Thorpe: I could have worked on this wave forever but gotta quit while I’m ahead. Stay safe all. #2 Self Portrait: 

I tried. Not quite me but A for effort?? Pastel

Bonny Wagoner: I don't have a painting to contribute this week. I currently have a commission to feature places and things to do in Columbia County in a coloring book style so I'm busily drawing away. These are the first three in the series.

Elo Wobig: Ok Jeanie Bates here’s one smiling ...6x8 oil Drawing #2 Usually I can be more objective when drawing someone else’s face but I have a hard time telling if this looks like me. I used some sort of pencil and some sort of stick which was darker but waxier than charcoal from a cheap drawing set.

Tim Young: 24x18 oil on panel Company lake, 16x12 acrylic on Multimedia Artboard Yup, Bic pen on watercolor paper selfie Ent-im Twickster, 16x12 Graphite on Multimedia Artboard. Still playing. 

Yong Hong Zhong: I decided to take up my friend's challenge of doing a self portrait. The last time I painted one was when I was in art school. Self portrait is really really hard, I need a lot more practice. 

Vicki Zimmerman: Two paintings that reflect our current isolation. The red onions were a perfect still life set up because they had another appearance in our dinner after. I painted the sun flower painting in the summer but they seemed to lonely so I included a person walking down the path.

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Thank you everyone for the EPIC submissions. I'm going to try to put together a slide show of the self portraits --watch for it! Next #painting4thursdays online gallery is April 9. The "challenge" aspect was so much fun, so as ususal, paint whatever you want but if you want a challenge next Thursdays prompt is going to be SPRING (Thanks, Jeffrey Scherer, for the idea). From an article about David Hockney:  David Hockney, who has spent a lifetime looking on the bright side, recommends spring as the cure for our ills. The 82-year-old artist recently released intense observations of daffodils and fruit trees in blossom. They are, as the title of one work puts it, a reminder that even in a locked-down world “they can’t cancel the spring”