Many Me

Description

I have always enjoyed this painting which I did when I was still teaching. This was done in conjunction with the A. P. Studio class I was teaching. After my students had worked long and hard on traditional self-portraits, I wanted them to go abstract. I wanted them to understand that art can be much more than precise representation. In having them again use themselves as the models, the students experienced the change in thinking and depiction of form that occurs because they have rendered the same subject. In this example piece I forced myself to use multiple “non-traditional” techniques to see where it would lead. It was a lot of fun.