See the Artist Painting

Last year I quit my full-time job, with the dream to be a fulltime artist. Something that I have been grappling with for a long time, was the inner acceptance that I was an artist in the first place. I've always associated calling yourself an artist with selling your work, or with some level of fame within an art community. Really, this is just self doubt, and it's a lack of confidence in my own abilities. This painting wasn't meant to mean anything when I started it. It was meant to just be something to get me started; a portrait to start a series of many portraits of many different people. What easier face to use than my own as the first, after all. As the painting progressed, I realised that it did mean something. This is the first fully completed oil painting on a canvas since I "became an artist", and it's the first piece of work I'm submitting for approval to an open exhibition in London. To me, this painting is about looking into my own eyes and seeing the artist and accepting that this is who I am. This painting represents a vote of confidence in myself both inwardly, and out into the art community.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11.8 W x 15.7 H x 0.8 D in

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