This is my first self portrait, I painted it this morning using overglaze paints, now it’s ready to be fired. I may add more later or maybe not.
This is the finished portrait, as you can see I tweaked it further before firing, once fired the paint is permanent as it binds with the glaze.
Some of the paint in the heavy areas burned out, I expected this to happen, I added some more paint in places and fired again.
I was trying to paint tone using colour so here it is in B&W
Some people are put off by the colour, people felt that way about the French Impressionist paintings, they thought the flesh looked like corpses.
Which do you prefer? The B&W one looks more familiar to me for some reason
