Worldwide Self Portrait Day is November 1st. < Not at the moment.
I can’t appear to seek out who began the ‘official day’, or if it has a house on-line. I don’t assume so? It appears to be only a meme that unfold via social media.
However higher late than by no means proper? I’ve had these two sketches mendacity round for some time so I figured I’d scan’em up.
Really Laurel scanned them for me, so that you get to see them 🙂
I’ve all the time felt self portraits have been a bit foolish, however as I become older I’m rather less self-conscious about it. There’s definitely extra to note in your personal face because it ages. I’m starting to know the rationale to have a yearly document you may look again on. You’ll be able to watch your self age, similtaneously you watch your art work change. In some senses it’s preserving monitor of your mortality – however for artists, we often enhance with age 🙂 so I don’t thoughts that.
This one is a little bit of a joke. I actually don’t know how one can take a mirror selfie. I imply; the actual fact the digicam is all the time within the shot is sort of bizarre isn’t it? It appears odd that within the hundreds of thousands (billions?) of selfies on-line we don’t see the fixed presence of our telephones as invasive.
It seems the innovation of the sensible telephone wasn’t the the digicam, however slightly the thought of the *related digicam*. The power to immediately share photographs is definitely a cultural revolution. My life wouldn’t have been the identical with out it.
So selfies! For those who did one this 12 months; why not publish it within the feedback. Subsequent 12 months we are able to look again, and see if our art work is maturing quicker than our faces 🙂