Self Portrait #1

This is what I look like made out of oilAfter I'm done with a painting I scrape all the leftover colors that I have mixed into little puddles of warm and cool greys. I also wipe my brushes off on a blank canvas. When I started this painting I had a couple of weeks worth of these spare colors, and a very interesting and dark canvas. In a way this portrait is an amalgamate of my paintings. All the experiance from the other paintings went into this portrait by using those colors. A kinda alternative way to symbolize oneself by means of color, instead of objects.

5hours
24cmx30cm
Oil on canvas

Shannon

I just watched Jeremy Lipking's video on painting the portrait. So I positioned myself to have the same angle he had of his model.
I tried to follow the same steps, and color etc, but it ain't no Lipking.

2.5 hours
Oil on 11x14 canvas

Critiques very welcome.