Original artwork description:

Painted after a trip to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, where the 'Munch:Van Gogh' exhibition showed self portraits of the two artists looking stern and miserable; I wanted to capture a contemporary version of myself like this, in the midst of painting, with my dressing gown on...

Materials used:

Painted in oil with sponges on deep edged canvas.

Tags:

#portrait #contemporary #portraiture #artist #van gogh #melancholy #blue eyes #amsterdam #self portrait #selfie #stare #real