Cinnamon Queens #2
by Carol Berning
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Title
Cinnamon Queens #2
Artist
Carol Berning
Medium
Painting - 20 X 24
Description
I'm thrilled to announce that my self portrait, Cinnamon Queens, won People's Choice award in the Second Annual Exhibition and Sale of the Women Painters of the Southeast!
This self-portrait was completed from life (mirror) and photographic reference. (I couldn't hold the hen while wielding a paint brush. The hen is one of my happy, healthy hens--a Cinnamon Queen--thus the title of the painting. I've included here some of my favorite quotes regarding portraits and self-portraits, which I reflected on while painting my reflection:
Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint. (Thomas S. Buechner)
There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk. (Charles Dickens)
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and unique figure and still keep it living and real. (Edouard Manet)
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model. (Henri Matisse)
-b.1389 d.1464...
Every painter paints himself. (Cosimo de Medici)
Every time I paint a portrait, I lose a friend. (John Singer Sargent)
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth. (John Singer Sargent)
-Instructions in Art, first published in Metropolitan Magazine,1903...
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself. (Mark Twain)
When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person. (Jamie Wyeth)
-said while being asked by the woman to do some 'improvements' here and there...
Madam, I am a painter, not a plastic surgeon. (Alan Wylie)
Enjoy!
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