Self portraiture

Next task is to produce a painting that says something about you, a self portrait in the loosest sense. I was only allowed two colours plus black and white.

I chose a beautiful cobalt turquoise that i saw on special when browsing the art shop and a burnt umber.

I really didn't know where to begin, after a few false starts I just went with the colour.

it so reminded me of windy seascapes, I began to think of Cornwall where I used to live.

I remembered all those fantastic books I used to read to the kids, MIchael Foreman, Michael Morpurgo. I got out some old photos and had a go at St Ives wharf, Alfred Wallis style.

Just playing really but then the picture below arrived.  I love it! It sums up my dreams and my past and my future. Not happy with the faces, but then you try doing skin tones with just white and brown!

The quote is from a Jack Johnson song (credit to him), and in the song is "Love is the answer, at least to all the questions in my heart." God I wish I could write lines like that!