American Artist Self Portrait Competion

Call for artists
deadline: May 1st

self portraits that you assert is a reflection of yourself. click the link for more info. lots of art supplies for prizes, some cash and an opportunity to appear in their hallowed pages.

Sanctuary

this is yesterday's self portrait. today i drew the card of sanctuary within the court of the high priestess. the deep calling of the everyday, a re-connection in right relationship with community. sobeit.

A friend of the Paintbrush Sage asked for a recent self portrait

this is a mirror image. so my left eye is on the right and the right eye is on the left. folk always tell me i get an intense/odd gaze when looking/painting/drawing. my left eye is wide open and my right eye appears to be hazed, looking at something else. a lot of artists say they 'see' differently through each eye. i used to call it the inner/outer gaze. it is evident in lots of artists self portraits and portraits of artists/writers. i think of gertrude stein's droopy eye via picasso, ethel's portrait series of cape ann poets, kathe kollewitz, max beckmann, egon schiele, rembrandt...er, Debbie Clarke!

i perceive spatial relationships with my right eye, i see flatly in a value scale with my left eye. i perceive color in my peripheral vision.

Artist on Art: Summer 2005

This digital print is an accident from the summer of 2005. The self portrait painting in the window is what I saw through the lense of my Olympus. The Camedia revealed something else. Manipulated via crop only. There are a few more images in this series. 5x5" prints, archival Epsom inks on acid free paper, mounted on cradled board. limited signed edition $100 each.

"3rd Eye" mixed media on manipulated digital self portrait,

What I did today:
I mounted this 5x5" digital print of this manipulated photo onto a 5x5" panel.


I layered silver leaf, gel medium, gloss medium, and acrylic paint onto the print.
I scraped through the layers.
I added many phthalo acrylic glazes.
I scanned the image into the computer and here it is.



copyright Debbie Clarke
2008
Gloucester MA

$175

Foiled Oils: Self Portraits 2007

this 20x20" self portrait gives me peace:



This is large 40x60"(?), another self portrait. I keep thinking about going back into it and introducing color, as well as, defining the features:


The following image is about the same size as the one above, another self-portrait that carries the same nagging feeling about going back into it:


The media is oil on linen with gold, silver, aluminum and combination leaf. These back-lit self portraits carry a retinal memory of The Revenant painting and drawings by Andrew Wyeth. I saw the work in one of the comprehensive catalogues of his work and have never been able to rid myself of his shadow when doing self portraits.