Selfie with decor

I fell asleep in front of the TV tonight at 10:00 and woke up at 10:30. I decided to re-watch the episode of Fringe tomorrow night when I am fresh, and turned it off, and I went to check for messages on Facebook one more time before bed.

Sitting on the table was an already prepared piece of watercolor paper (pencil marks made, ink washes done and dried), and I found myself reaching for it, thinking I would just get the drawing down and finish it tomorrow. Somehow, two and a half hours later, I had finished my second Weiers-inspired painting of the day!

On this one, I didn't do blind contour, I drew a realistic self-portrait from a photo I had taken. But even with a straightforward drawing, using Deb's techniques—the colors, the line work, the bits of collage, the decorations—turns a portrait into something more. I'm pretty happy with this one—I thought the purple and orange background would work out well, and it didn't disappoint me.

I'm going to try some weirder and wonkier ones, but this was a great experience of combining my usual with her unusual.

Uniball, pencil, gel pens, watercolors, Daler Rowney acrylic inks, collage paper, on 140-lb. Fluid watercolor paper, 9x12.