Sunday, January 17, 2010

New Self Portrait



I've been studying Rembrandt lately and been intrigued with the way he applies paint. For me that solves the expressive nature I have been seeking lately in my work. I've also tried to fined that balance between expression and accuracy. I love some of Van Gogh's self portraits for their expressive nature, but they fail to satisfy the accuracy that I seek. Rembrandt seem to do a good job at both. I did a Rembrandt copy in oil before this self portrait hoping some of his influence would rub off on me.

3 comments:

Stooball said...

Very nice! Has the definite look of classical works!

Fantastic

Sakievich said...

Looks great. I get to do a couple of Rembrandt copies this semester at the MET which I'm really looking forward to.

Aaron Ludwig said...

Very cool. Nice beard. :)