The First Challenge, Bravo! I am the missing Artist!

This community was created from an idea for a personal project that I have decided to try to expand into including others. Here was the original journal entry that started  it all.

http://eoniabstract.livejournal.com/1340.html


Well now that I have watched the show,  just up until they go off to where they will live, I realized some things. This is going to be a hard challenge and the lack of feedback and interaction with others may be inhibiting. So I created a community, that actually might be fun to do besides being a vessel for my project.

Instead of just 1 painting, now I have to do 2. Why is this? Well since everyone in the show had to compose a self portrait, I decided that I should too.  Although I don't really "do" portraits, this is part of what the challenge is and the last time I did a self portrait was the only time, and it was quite strange and abstract and crazy.  
Then again I did this in the beginning of this abstract mess phase I was entering, and this really does express what I was going through at the time and if one wanted to listen to the story of this painting it would tell of all sorts of strange things, this is also a bad picture, the piece is kind of big and some details are lost. But the picture here is that, this was my attempt at a portrait, so goodluck me right? HA! Ok, no psyching myself out now, before I have even begun, when minutes ago I had no idea what I was going to do to express myself and where I am now, I just drove around the corner to pick up the mail and DING DING DING, inspiration, I now know exactly what I am going to do for that.


Now on to "the challenge piece" so I have to pick an artist to create a portrait of, so far my favorite is Erik, I get where he is coming from and I really like the pieces of his I have seen, it feels familiar to me and while others see dark exterior a closer look inside reveals soft and fuzzy. BUT I will not pick him because on the show they had to be paired up randomly and that is what I will do as well so I end up with Miles, who I actually like the least right now mainly for selfish reasons, he seems so snooty with his fancy techniques,... but maybe its just cause I don't know how to execute them that I feel this way. I do not have the ability to sit and talk with him as they did on the show, so I am using a completely superficial opinion to base my art on but it will do. Since on the show they had just one day to complete their portraits, I will do the same, besides I have a self portrait to create first and I need a couple of days for this one. I will set deadline for my portrait of Miles to be complete on Monday 06/14/2010, that way I can begin on Sunday.

Anyone else that wants to join in the challenge, here are your guidelines.
1: Pick an artist from the Bravo! show The next great artist to create a portrait of,
    if you don't have on demand or dvr on your tv, catch the episode online and 
    watch it up until before they go to the gallery show.
2: Use any medium you want.
3: You have 1 day to complete your piece of art from the time you begin
4: Post your art as a reply to this post
5: Critique someone else's art

Happy Painting!