Self Portraits

Project

For a university project I was asked to produce 50 different paintings in completely different styles. I thought it would be a challenge to 50 self portraits. I had the whole summer to complete the project, but only left myself a week to do it.

I started off my researching my favourite artists hoping to generate a list of 50 styles. I decided on 25 to begin with and began painting then. I did a painting every 2-3 hours depending on the complexity of the style I was replicating. Styles varied from traditional painters such as Van Gogh, Picasso and Rembrandt to modern artists such as Chuck Close, Jenny Saville and many others. I produced a few cartoon versions of myself such as a Simpsons character, Beano character and in a Manga style.

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The 50 Portraits

Row 1 | Traditional Painting | Primary color squares | Scribbles | Photo-realistic | Dark Knight Joker
Row 2 | Diagonal Lines | Lucien Freud | Graffiti | Signature | Money
Row 3 | Andy Warhol | Lempicka | Revolving Silhouette | Alex Ross | Tattoo
Row 4 | Cubism | Normal Rockwell | Duchamps | Rembrandt | Van Gogh
Row 5 | Comic Fantasy | Character Design | Jenny Saville | Blue-print | Young
Row 6 | Harsh Lighting | Dali | Picasso | The Scream | Da Vinci
Row 7 | Gothic | The Simpsons | Lowry | Pencil Sketch | Beano
Row 8 | Tribal | Lichtenstein | Obama Poster | Opie Blue Cover | Engraving
Row 9 | Favourite Song Lyrics | Saw | David Hockney | Patchwork | Collage
Row 10 | Single Line | Gerald Scarfe | Chuck Close | Manga | Marvel