Self Portrait Global Love In

Self Portrait Challenge Number 2

2009-09-17T17:12:00.000-07:00

Norleen Sommerville, New Zealand

William Matheny, USA

Rosa Ovies, Spain

Rhonda Carpenter, USA

Rajalekshmy Usha, USA

Prabha, India

Pedro Barahona, Spain

Nacy Standlee, USA

Milind Mulick, India

Manjiri More, India

Lique Schoot, Netherlands

Laura Starrett, USA

Kathy Los Rathburn, USA

Kathy Kreidler, USA

Jill Polsby, USA

Janet Thomas, United Kingdom

Ginny Stiles, USA

G L Everest, USA

Fookie, USA

Dustin Strong, USA

Dominique Eichi, USA

Dolors Barberan, Spain

Davida Schulman, USA

Dana Richards, USA

Dana Herz, USA

David Lobenberg, USA

Cindi Deweese, USA

Bobbi Heath, USA

Beckie Saar Leone, USA

Barbara Salor, USA

Barbara Muir, Canada

Here we are World with the top of our heads adorned. Enjoy! Thanks to all of you who participated!!
I will be putting out a 3rd self portrait challenge soon, but I need your help. Can you submit some ideas for self portraits ranging from every day prosaic to wild and whacky?!

Did I tell you where to send your second self portrait challenge???

2009-09-11T00:02:00.000-07:00

To my email at: sushi3@mac.com
Question #1.Should I extend the due date for this 2nd challenge?
That's a portrait of me painted in oil a few months ago by a fellow artist.
Ouestion #2. Does anyone know how I could add a Google language translation widget to this blog?

AND FINALLY: On my other blog, I am notified via my email that I have gotten a comment. I then go to my blog to respond to them. I guess that I did not set that email notification option up on this SPGLI blog, and therefore have answered NONE of the comments. My sincerest apologies! Ahh, technology!

September 12 is just over the horizon

2009-08-17T20:06:00.000-07:00

That's our due date for our self portraits with something on our head. Hope you can participate! Be conservative or be wild!

American Hells Angel Bad Boy

2009-07-20T10:54:00.000-07:00

I painted this a few years ago. It was one of several watercolors that I contributed to a biker fundraising art show to raise money to help individuals recover from serious accidents. I suggested that they simply get rid of their dangerous motor cycles and purchase Volvos. They all ignored my good advice!
I post this as a reminder of our second self portrait challenge: A self portrait with head ware...hats, helmets, scarves, etc. Let your imagination run free! Any art medium including digital. The due date is September 12. Send your art to me at: sushi3@mac.com.

A NEW "SELF PORTRAIT GLOBAL LOVE IN" CALL FOR ART!!

2009-07-07T20:26:00.000-07:00

Please go to my "David Lobenberg" blog (click on " View my complete profile" on the right, then scroll down to my two blog listings and click on "David Lobenberg") and go to the July 7, 2009 post. Thank you, and I'm looking forward in seeing what our global community of artists come up with!

OOPS!

2009-07-02T09:17:00.000-07:00

I'm an artist, not an editor. I figured I'd get some spelling of names all screwed up. I even missed posting (to date) two portraits...nuts!! Look for Bob Dahquist's very unique self portrait. He lives right around the corner from my studio and I missed him in the great GLOBAL love in!!! Also, I missed posting Beckie Saar Leone's wonderfully colorful and expressive SP. She emailed me wanting to know if there was something wrong with hers...hell no! And finally, I have added a very intriguing self portrait by Davida Schulman. Look for these self portraits at the top of the group of my previous post.
I'm hoping everything is correct now but probably not! Odds are good that I'll have more corrections and additions. Want to bet against that prognostication?

Global Self Portraits

2009-07-01T13:39:00.000-07:00

Tami Hortlathwell, Canada

William Matheny, USA

Laura Starrett

Terry Banderas, USA

Pierre Debroucker, France

Juan Carlos Cardesin, Spain

Gary Everest, USA

Laura Climent Munoz. Spain

Davida Schulman, USA

Beckie Saar Leon, USA

Bob Dahlquist, USA (Polaroid SX-70)

Barbara Sailor, USA

Barbara Muir, Canada

Maria Kovalenko Leysens, USA

Wendy Shaul, USA

Vinayak Desmukh, India

Vicki Behringer, USA (courtroom artist)

Deborah Ross

Sidney Eileen

Ruth Andre, USA

Rosa Ovies, Spain

Rhonda H Carpenter

Rahina Qh, Scotland

Patty Ray Avalon, USA

Padmini Satish Kumar, India

Myrna Wacknov, USA

Monica Blazejack, USA

Mike Bailey, USA

Meera Rao, USA

Marilyn M King, USA

Manjiri More, India

M Jose Barrera, Spain

Kathy Los Rathburn, USA

Liza Hirst, France

Kathy Kreidler, USA

Judi Smith, USA

Karen Fulk, USA (3 dimensional)

Juan Valdivia, Spain

Juan Mallol, Spain

John Wang, USA

Jocelyn (aka: Soulbrush), Great Britain

Jo Anne Elig, USA

Jeremy Elder, USA (digital art)

James Ross, USA (digital art)

Hilda Hall,USA

Heather Rison, USA

Gerhard Ritter, Australia

Enrique Llamazares, Spain

Doriene D. Marshall, USA

Dolors Barberan, Spain

Diana Boyd, USA

Dana Richards, USA

Craig Stevens, USA

Conroy Hudlow, USA

Clive Powsey, Canada

Carol Marine, USA

Carmen Jimenez, Spain

Brian Elig,USA

Ambarish Joshi, India

Arti Chauhan, India

Anna Morales, Spain

Aditya Shirke, India

Susie Gregory, USA

Seago, USA

Milind Mulick, India

Cindi Deeweese, USA

David Lobenberg, USA

The first edition of the Self Portrait Global Love In!

2009-07-01T11:00:00.000-07:00

Wow! What a great response. This new blog I have opened is something that I had not initially planned on doing. Originally, only a few months ago, I was doing a "paint-offs" with a very talented artist in India by the name of Milind Mulick. Our last challenge was to do our self portrait. I felt that the word "paint-off" was too aggressive and since Milind and I were so far apart on the globe, why not call our "paint-offs" "global love ins"? But a "love in' means a get together of shared joy by many people. For you older folks, remember the fabled "Woodstock", the great music concert in the early 1970's in the USA? As the English saying goes, "one thing leads to another" and here we are at an expanded self-portrait paint-off now titled Self Portrait Global Love In.
The world over, as we all are aware of, there are those that are very organized and, to borrow another English phrase, "get their ducks in a row", and then there are those that are less organized...energetic and enthusiastic, yes, but do not have their ducks in a row. Artists of the globe...that's me! I did not require any particular photo requirements. Some photo files came in small and some came in very large, so if the self portraits jump around in terms of size and quality, that is why. Under each portrait will be the artist's name and country. A few may have some additional information for unusual art medium. I provide no artist links. Sorry, I need to earn a living as well as operate two blogs, and adding links would just add to much time on my posting process.
I hope for this blog to evolve with my ducks maybe getting into a tighter row. And last but certainly not least, I hope this humble blog continues as an internet nexus for artists the globe over to share and celebrate their passion for rendering the human face.

I will post the self portraits in no particular last name order. Please contact me if I have misspelled your name.

Ahoy! From India to Indiana And All The Places Inbetween!

2009-06-17T20:54:00.000-07:00

Mr. Milind Mulick, a very accomplished artist in India and I, here in the U S of A, decided a few months ago to do a self portrait paint- off. Well, we both felt that that would be a trifle boring...let's open this up to one and all! The SP's have been coming in, and I've opened my second blog to display them early next month. Coming soon...The Self Portrait Global Love In!!