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Sunday, August 1, 2010

in Progress: Lady of the Serpents (or Self-Portrait with Serpents)

Another self portrait. No, I am not obsessed with my own image (although I am a Leo rising), I am just the easiest and cheapest model I can find. ;) Actually this portrait has a good reason to be. It is the development of a dream I had, 2 nights before turning 40. A friend of mine suggested me to paint the dream, and here it is. I'll talk more about the dream as the work progresses.

in progress: Lady of the Serpents [first attempt]

This is the first version. The detail is cool, but the vision of the whole seemed a little overwhelming to me, so I decided to redo it. It took me a little training to get adapted to how the acrylics behave on gessoed masonite. I am a little spoiled by the absorbency of the paperboard and had a bit of a hard time trying to get the glazes to have the same transparency on the board surface.

Second version so far is looking like this:

in progress: Lady of the Serpents

in progress: Lady of the Serpents

in progress: Lady of the Serpents

in progress: Lady of the Serpents

in progress: Lady of the Serpents
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6 comments:

  1. Ambermoggie, a fragrant soulAugust 1, 2010 at 10:40 AM

    WOW incredible work I love it:)

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  2. JasmineAugust 1, 2010 at 12:18 PM

    If all our dreams were this pretty we would never want to wake up :) Good to see more of your work. Belated birthday greetings x

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  3. A mermaid in the atticAugust 3, 2010 at 5:53 AM

    Beautiful, Patricia!

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  4. JanineAugust 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM

    I love it! You make me think that maybe I should paint myself as I would like to see myself! Thank you for sharing!

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  5. Tammie LeeAugust 9, 2010 at 11:23 AM

    amazing dream.... at least the peak you have given us. I love her eyes, you are a wonderful model~

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  6. Chic de CruOctober 17, 2010 at 11:22 AM

    Your art is definitely from the depths of the human mass consciousness and higher consciousness. Archetypal and it brings us all inward. Deeper and deeper to re-member where we all come from and where we are going. It makes us connect on a deeper level than the mundane often does not that the mundane doesn't have a mystery as well if we look deep enough. But I keep coming back and I am glad I found you on fb.
    Charlotte Phillips

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