Mona Conner Portraits: Miniature Self Portrait in Progress

COMMISSIONING A PORTRAIT

COMMISSIONING A PORTRAIT:

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Miniature Self Portrait in Progress

"Self Portrait at 34" (in progress), egg tempera miniature painting on Kelmscott vellum

I'm really enjoying the challenge of working on this miniature portrait of myself when I was 34, painting it from my own photos which were taken with the self-timer on my camera back then. I had fun posing in one of my all-time favorite wardrobe items, a black velvet cocktail dress. This is shown approximately same-size as the art, so the tricky part will be to see if I can adequately articulate in paint at miniature portrait scale (1/6th of life size) the details of the rhinestone necklace I was wearing.