Also ominous, not only do I have a bunch of paintings clogging up my creative spaces, but most of them are self-portraits, polaroids of myself in spaces of time and stages of life...staring at me non-stop.
Its a "damned if you do, damned if you dont" scenario. If youre the introspective type, you find yourself to be the subject of many of your paintings. The results are usually very intense, dark, and thick as a porter house steak (imagine Van Gogh cutting off his ear), which can make interesting works of art...that nobody wants to buy (Van Gogh sold only a couple paintings in his lifetime).
But dont be disheartened, self-portraits are great investments (owning Van Gogh's paintings now would make you a multi-millionaire, many of the highest appraised are his self portraits). The catch is you might find something too intense to treat simply as wallpaper or decoration...
I will be posting all of my self portraits during the next couple of days. Here is one of the first paintings I did looking out of the Ohio farmhouse window with a vintage mirror.....
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