Self Portrait

Illustration Friday - Black and White
I've been experimenting with some photographic self portraits recently, like Cindy Sherman. I love to dress up, but don't often put on costumes except for Halloween.

I was looking at a Kevin Aucoin book the other day. He's done some amazing makeup transformations. So I got out some of the makeup that I never use, and also a scarf someone bought me that I thought hideous. It's gold and black with stripes and leopard spots. Not my style at all, but little kids and their parents give weird gifts to their teachers.

I made myself up to look a bit like Clara Bow with heavy eye makeup and tiny lips. I took some digital photos in the mirror, but since I don't have three mirrors and four hands some of them had weird angles in them. I quite liked the angle of this photo, but decided to run it through some software with filters.

So, color digital photo, with a Thumbs Plus drawing filter, and Photoshop torn edges filter. The torn edges really seemed to create a mood.