Self-Portrait in Color (2009)
One of the projects at A-B Tech in Asheville, NC. We were tasked with painting a self-portrait in which a portion was in observed color and the rest to be feature an open, arbitrary, use of color. I can’t remember specifically which class this was for. We were allowed to work from a photograph, so I suspect this was for Design I rather than Painting I. I personally chose to make use of golden proportions to divide up the space. I continue to use the golden ratio in a lot of my work, but I choose to be much more subtle and loose about it.
18 in by 24 in, acrylic on paper, 2009.