I ran across this self portrait when I was uploading drawing from my Fall 2016 sketchbook. It’s exactly as I feel today and so many times in my life. Since I suspect I’m not alone in my feeling I thought the image was worth sharing.
This mixed media piece consists of magazine imagery, journal pages, and written pages from Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way” book (around edges) which I was going through around the time I designed this piece. I love the freedom I allowed myself with the red colors painting over the collaged pieces combined with the very orderly painted word, “Create.”
When I showed this piece to my brother he asked me if my 3-year-old son helped me with it. Since I felt like a child again when designing this piece I consider that to be the best compliment ever!
This was a creative solution to cover a vent hole on a kitchen cabinet under our sink in our old house. It is so much nicer to look at this then the old, broken and ugly previous vent. You don’t notice it initially but if you look closely you will see this piece has holes all throughout it so that it can serve as a vent.