Self Portrait at 36. This is the first self-portrait I’ve done in 12 years, first head-only in probably 20 years. I like the hair and the nose and the head shape, but the eyes are a bit odd. Eyes in self portraits are always a bit odd.
For my very first thing a day, I decided to take a lovely, slow, a capella choral piece by Rachmaninoff that I’ve always loved– very reverent, a bit melancholy– and do something instrumental with it, and happier. I’m sure Sergei is turning over in his grave.
This is only just about the first half or so of it; I decided to stop when the tempo changes, because I’d already spent a little over an hour on it.
If, like Jess, you want to hear the gorgeous piece I’m massacring, you can get my favorite version from iTunes, here.