Self portraits with hair and eyeglasses

Eeek! I just looked and I haven't posted any fake progress in a while. Except for some bread. It's a new year and I didn't make any arting resolutions that I'll not do anyway. I'm working on a dark alley linoleum cut and printed the first proofs this afternoon. I'll do some adjustments and make another set of proofs tomorrow. Maybe post it eventually. 

I've been zooming a few classes here and there from the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery of Art, both in DC. And from the London Drawing Group and Art Enthusiasts in England. Also going to artists, docent, or curator talks (zoom) at the Portrait Gallery, National Gallery, the MIA, and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection 

There have been a bunch of portrait-type classes: a class on just the nose, a class on just the mouth, a class on portraits in shadows, portraits in the style of
another artist (e.g. Egon Schiele [at left] or David Hockney). My versions of myself are all pretty weird but they were fun to do. I realize I look like my fathers father, or I look like some other man, or I look like an androgynous jowly person. 

The lesson in this for me is to do the work, try it out, and not to be thinking about that I look like my fathers father in his old age, that I look crazy, that I look fat, etc etc. 

They are here for when I throw them away I still have a record. And that there are only maybe 3 people who ever look at my blog anyway so I have nothing to be mortified about. 

Also, I have more gray hair than I think I do. I still think I have mostly blackish hair. 

Weird zombie 

Stalker mugshot in crayon

Creepy doll head or that mean teacher from 4th grade