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Me by Eds Miranda

Painting Project: Expressive Self-Portraits

By Marion Boddy-Evans, About.com Guide

Self-portrait painting

"Me" by Eds Miranda. Oil pastel.

Photo © Eds Miranda
From the Artist: I Hope you like my artwork. Please give some comments and suggestions about my work. I want to improve and be impressive my project.

From the Painting Guide: It's incredibly difficult to give comments or helpful suggestions about what you might improve without knowing what your aims and objectives were, or what you were attempting to do in this particular painting. The concepts of "good art" and "bad art" are very subjective; some people think all abstract art is bad; others say photorealistic is. Ultimately you need to decide for yourself what you categorize as good/bad, and where this particular painting of yours fits with what you consider good.

Whether I like or don't like your artwork doesn't ultimately matter either. You need to decide whether you like it, whether you achieved what you set out to do, whether you learned anything doing it. Each painting builds on the one you did before.

Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Is it a Self-Portrait: This is certainly a painting of a face, albeit an abstracted one. But considered as a self-portrait (the objective of this painting project), I don't think it contains enough to identify it with the artist who painted it. It's too abstracted or graphic, there's not enough sense of character or personality -- unless the colors are known to be iconic of a particular artist.
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