Spring in bloom painting by Cassie Kinney

This is a painting I've been working since yesterday. I'm tired of looking at it, so I have called it finished despite the many flaws that remain. The painting is based on a photo from the early 90's of my brother and I among flowering fruit trees and tulips blooming on an Easter day where we were hunting plastic eggs.

Banana Girl (painting) 2007/re-done Jan 2015

The 2007 Self portrait below titled "Banana Girl" was created with Acrylic paint on 8x10 inch canvas. The second photo is of the original painting; and the first photo shows you the retouches I did today. As you may notice in the original, the paint was dulling. But the re-touched painting looks fresh, vibrant; and when you squint, the color outlines appear like an hallucination.

Self portrait etching, sketches, & painting

Artists like Van Gogh, Degas, Rembrandt, Picasso, Frida Kahlo often painted self-portraits, each of which used their own unique style to portray themselves. 

The first self-portrait below, is an etching on Clay board created in 2006 or 2007, dimensions of 8x10 inches. Can you tell I was wearing a "Beatles" t-shirt?

 

Here I have presented some sketches of myself from 2010, when I was 20 years old, sophomore in college.

 

The 2007 Self portrait below titled "Banana Girl" was created with Acrylic paint on 8x10 inch canvas.

The 2007 self portrait has dimensions of 12x18 inches, using acrylic paint on canvas/board.