Self portrait in the mirror inspired by lack of electricity
So, the power went out at my house and with no internet to waste my time on.. I decided to paint something. But my house is empty of any interesting objects, except for this full wall mirror. My phone was dead so I couldnt even play some music. It was an interesting experience, studying my face for hours in complete silence. I taped the paper on the mirror and started sketching. A game of thrones poster I remembered, slightly influenced the direction I took with the lighting, they used blue light for shadows and yellow for lights, so I tried to build my face with only minimal use of blue and yellow and let the colour of the paper do the rest. I also crushed some pastel with a sheet of acetofan to create texture contrast with the background. I thought the posters were brilliant and tried to bring that idea into my pastel painting.
I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks!
This is really beautiful! I love the expression of your face, and the swirls of colour on the edges look so mystical. What a beautiful piece of art, you're very talented!
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Interesting idea... Fascinating! I like the effects created by the blues on the left side of face and stands of hair... Good work!
Nice
Lack of power site spurred your creativity that is an awesome image
Wow, what happened, 70 votes all of a sudden haha, thanks guys, please follow if you enjoy my posts. Ill try to post something cool every day.
Really nice work !! Intresting idea
Impressive art.
Nice :) upvoted and followed.
Why don't you check my last story about art?
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Very cool! What's your medium - chalk?
Pastels, it's almost like chalk :)
K thanks. I think my mom used to use those. Square sticks in a box. She'd be able to smudge where she wanted to blend shades. Takes a talented craftsman to do what you've done. Great work!
nice! I dig the blue shadow, that way you can still have detail and not loose it in the blackness of the shading
Beautiful work :)