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For Self-Rec Saturday, I shall talk about one of my gishwhes items! This, to me, was one of the more hilariously worded items this year:

The item was: "It’s a well-known fact that Pablo Picasso was a huge “Supernatural” fan. He painted portraits of Mark Sheppard, Jensen Ackles, Ruth Connell, Sam Smith, Richard Speight Jr., Matt Cohen, Jared Padalecki, Andrew Dabb, Rob Benedict, Misha Collins, Bob Singer, and many of the other cast and crew members. Sadly, until now, these great works have been lost to the world. Fortunately, your team has unearthed one of these priceless works."

Here's what I did for it:



My mom had a couple of Picassos on the wall when I was growing up. She claimed to like 'em, but tell you the truth, I've never been a fan. Still, it was something I've been exposed to all my life, and I was eager to explore his work and style a bit more.

I felt from the beginning that I would be painting Rob, and sure enough, a good pic of him came up on the Google, and that's what I ended up using. I did a lot of painting this year! Next time I'll show you my Bob Ross time-lapse painting.

Man, I love all the art projects gishwhes makes you do. Somewhere deep inside me, I secretly always wanted to try to paint like Picasso, just to try to figure out what was going on in the brain of the guy whose works haunted me as a kid, and to see if my childhood suspicion that with his big-color-block portraits he was just tired of working so hard to make grown-up art and wanted to see if he could make it easy and fun like when you're coloring as a kid (CONFIRMED), and as usual, gishwhes read these buried desires and interests and talked me into actually fulfilling them. Thanks, Misha! I LOVE YOU. (No, seriously, I love you.)

Date: 2016-09-08 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] septembers-coda.livejournal.com
I have told you how much I love this, even if not as much as all your original YOU-style paintings! (BTdubs, I DISAGREE that your you-style portraits don't look like who they are-- I guess you just said it doesn't come easily to you, which only you get to decide, :-) but the end product ALWAYS looks like the subject, and more importantly, has the SOUL.) <3 You nailed Picasso, but better IMO. (I'm not a Picasso fan either.) I love this painting, and I'm so glad you chose Rob, because I have newfound, tender love for the man, and I will be glad to have YOUR portrait of him on the wall once I get a suitable frame. <3

This is as good a place as any to tell you-- remember the bearded-glasses Picasso-Gishwhes portraits we couldn't identify? It's because we were only thinking of actors. I think they were supposed to be Bob Singer. :-D

Date: 2016-10-14 01:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brightly-lit.livejournal.com
Well, thank you very much, bb. They do have soul! But I think it's my soul I'm putting into them as much as the person I'm painting .... Anyway, I appreciate it. <3

I think I saw more Singers when I googled them--I think you're right!

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