Friday 5 August 2011

Feeling blue.

For various reasons...probably not a good time to take a good long look at myself...but anyway I wanted to do Amy's Inside Out project...details at the bottom of this long rambling post.

 and that meant looking at myself, or at least a photo of myself.

Week One: Inside Out.

I printed off a black and white photo of me.


















I cut it out and stuck it to this old envelope.


















the very lightly gessoed it, actually I watered the gesso down a bit.



















Picked my colour, several shades and tints of blue, and started to colour it in.



















I kept a copy of the original so I could see where to shade.



















 I quite like it...I think...


















This is the other side of the envelope, for now I am leaving it. At some point I think I may add some journalling or a poem to it.

10 comments:

  1. I love that you made yourself blue! What a wonderful portrait!
    Lotus

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  2. Thank you for your comment Darcy!
    Lotus

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  3. Blue & Bluetiful this turned out great, I made myself a hottie in Amy's class, but you my girl are cool ;)

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  4. Blue you is soo cool, though I normally picture you as hot reds :D I haven't had chance to work on mine this week(took me a week to pluck up the courage to take the photos.....), but I am going to share soon :D XXX

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  5. AWESOME Darcy! Altering a photo is so much FUN isn't it? I like take ones out magazines also and colouring the way I want.
    GREAT JOB - THANKS for posting!

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  6. this is excellent - so very you!

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  7. god i'm a freak. i came and looked at this right away, but i didn't comment.
    what the hell is *with* me lately?

    am. freak.

    why is your blog not showing up on my dashboard?
    i'm going to follow it with this account too - now you will see two me's on your followers thing, so that makes you look one person more popular, but it's just plain old me. I can't figure out why you aren't showing up on my thing.

    grrrr.

    are you feeling better? i was but then i also felt hungover, so i guess i didn't Really feel better.
    xx,
    amy

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  8. okay. now you are there.
    sorry about the two amy's.
    so you don't get too confused, the spare 'me' in your followers thing is the me with the mustache.
    xx,
    amy

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