In which I draw myself every day and post it to this blog, along with selections from 30+ years of self-portraits. It's alot to look at, here are my favorites.
A little Picasso, a little Miro, a little Kay.Labels: 2008, Faves: 2008.10, Media: Digital, Media: iPod Colors, Media: iPod Touch, Process: From Imagination, Skin Tones: Purple, Style: Graphic, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
7:33 PM
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Somehow it took until this morning to figure out that if I wanted a quick photo of myself to work from, I didn't need to take a digital photo and then upload it to the computer - I could use the darn video camera in the computer! In fact I can use the live video feed on the computer as a mirror. So this was drawn on the iPod Touch (Squiggles again, I'll try something new tomorrow) while looking at myself in 'photobooth' on my macbook
. It was about 5 am so the video reproduction of my face in low light was kind of blue/purple. That's my excuse anyway, and i'm sticking to it! On the Squiggles front, one thing I've been finding frustrating with Squiggles is that there;s no eyedropper tool. There's a full color-picker, which is great, but there's no way to get the exact same color as you picked and used somewhere else in the drawing. Well, I take that back - there is a cloning tool, so if you have a large swath of a color somewhere, you can sort of use cloning to draw with that color again but it's very awkward, and really not the intended use of that tool.
Labels: 2008, Media: Digital, Media: iPod Squiggles, Media: iPod Touch, Process: From Photo(s), Skin Tones: Purple, Subject: Head, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
5:15 AM
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Labels: 2008, Media: Pen, Media: Watercolor, Process: Blind left drawing with sighted right painting, Process: Eyes Closed, Process: From Imagination, Process: Left and Right Handed together, Process: Left-handed, Skin Tones: Purple, Style: Contour Lines, Subject: Head, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
11:59 PM
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And I say, play with your food! Have a good time! This was done during a break from grating fresh beets from Danelle & Tor's garden. Mmmmm.... thanks, guys!Labels: 2008, Media: Non-traditional, Skin Tones: Purple, Subject: Hands and Feet, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
posted by Julia Kay at
6:30 PM
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Artist, Analyst, Aikidoist, Alexander Technique Teacher-Trainee. Artist: I've been living, working and exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost 20 years. My subject matter ranges from portraits of people and animals to almost abstract paintings of plant forms and light. I paint in oil, acrylics, & watercolors, with oil paintsticks and watercolor markers, and with digital media such as pressure-sensitive tablet and Studio Artist software. I draw with anything I can get my hands on - sticks on wet sand and fingers on frosted windows, chunks of wood freshly burnt into charcoal and children's toys such as etch-a-sketch and magna-doodle. I also take landscape, figure, animal and street photographs, have played with printmaking (mostly monoprints) and have dabbled with sculpture in steel, wood, clay and neon.
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.jpg-795060.jpg "'Blind and Semi-Blind (Peeking)' watercolor self-portrait by San Francisco Bay Area artist Julia Kay. (Click to view same image larger.)")
