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I thought it would be fun to do a little behind the scenes of one of my favorite works. I like this painting a lot because I can use it as a profile picture when I’m not in the mood to have a regular photo up. I painted this painting very spontaneously with no reference or real plan. It’s not perfect but I like it. I had painted the background as it’s own piece but didn’t find it super interesting so I painted a face over the original abstract. I sketched it freehand, you can see pencil lines as I didn’t stick to the sketch while painting. I wasn’t thinking about myself or anyone in particular when I created the image or if it even looks like me though I claimed it as a self portrait later. At the time I was painting abstracts in a sketchbook then taking them out in the sun while they were still wet and photographing each piece from all different angles. I’d pick my favorite spot or detail and share the close up with my friends online, usually with a little spontaneous poem that I’d write after choosing the final image. When I was invited to exhibit my work digitally at @m.a.d.s.artgallery I needed high resolution photos that could be shared on a big screen, the original painting was a photographed like most of my others with the old iPhone so I had to get out the painting 3 years later and photograph it again with a real camera. I personally prefer taking pictures with my phone because I can quickly crop and upload to share without a lot of hassle. The real camera means so many extra steps before I can share that I seldom post the pictures I take but I’m getting better about that. The final pics are the photos I took 3years later for the exhibit the painting is dry so it’s not quite the same effect. I included some never before shared images from the original 2015 iPhone shoot in different lighting from other angles. I call this piece both “Self in Blue” and “Charity of Thought” which was the title of a poem one of my best friends Sandy wrote for me when I was 15 or 16. I hope you all enjoy this little peak behind the scenes I’m thinking of sharing a few more of these.
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Since last summer I’ve been going through the archives of my favorite past projects and adding them to my website, some in blogs, some in my poetry pages but for this project, one of my favorites, I thought I’d create a whole page on my website and talk about the project a bit in a video, so I did. ☠️ Punk Rock Girl Art ☠️ It was fun to reminisce about how I got started taking these kinds of pictures and what the project means to me. I still take rust pictures often I have just gotten away from posting them. Now I’ve recently moved to a different historic district and I’m surrounded again by old brick buildings and lots of lovely rust I haven’t turned into art yet. This project when I created it was called “Punk Rock Girl Art” a wink at who I am, where I come from and the music and fashion that I’ve adored since I was probably 14 years old. I’m so thrilled I have a new historic town to explore and a huge garage where I’m hoping to create an art studio as the weather gets better. Anyway I know I don’t post pictures nearly often enough, I keep meaning to, but I will share my new paintings and of course more pictures as I explore my new town this spring.
FIND OUT A BIT MORE ABOUT THIS PROJECT:SOME FAVORITES FROM MY COLLECTION - CLICK TO SEE FULL IMAGE
I've included some pics I've taken of myself while running around photographing rust or trains and some just laying around. I tend to explore in my free time looking for cool images all over town and then I lay around in bed editing my favorites and writing poetry often inspired by the images I share.
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CharityFollowing my restless traveling spirit wherever it may lead; making art, taking pictures and writing notes along the way. All Photos and Written Work Copyright ©2022 Charity Janisse
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