As lockdown continues (although thankfully now less restrictive), arts and crafts along with baking, seem to have become an almost compulsory activity while everything else is inaccessible to us. I therefore thought it was about time I turned my hand to some creative work and decided a self-portrait would be the place to start.
As a first attempt I feel I have made a decent fist of it but believe I may have accidentally portrayed my image as a rather younger version of myself here. Somehow, between my first outline and the final instance, I seem to have slimed down and lost several years!
However, I believe there is a saying, attributed to the master Leonardo De Vinci, that ‘Art is never finished, only abandoned’, and here I have reached a point where I am ready to share what I have done with the world and move on to another project.
For this work I decided to try my hand at oil pastels. I may venture forth with other mediums to see if I have more success there, but doubt I will be troubling the Artist or even my dear friend, the Professor’s, achievements in the art field in the immediate future.
George Green Esquire 