{"id":5312,"date":"2013-12-30T21:24:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T02:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T23:47:10","slug":"a-self-portrait-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/30\/a-self-portrait-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A Self Portrait for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Self Portrait, 2012, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Why wish my readers Happy New Year with a scowling picture of your humble blogger? This portrait was my good start to the year just ending. Randall Harris of Figureworks Gallery had invited me to submit a work for an exhibition of self portraits<\/a>, the gallery’s first show of 2013. It was an opportunity to show alongside a wide variety of really good artists, some of them well-known.<\/p>\n

In December 2012 I drew this portrait, with a camera set up to capture stages in the development of the picture. I pointed a video camera at myself and drew from the image on a monitor, to avoid the reversed face you get in a mirror and the frozen effect you can get from working from a photograph. The bluish colors you see under my eyebrows represent the cool glow of the computer monitor I could see on my face.<\/p>\n

In the Figureworks exhibition, I showed the portrait as a multimedia piece, with the original 18″ x 24″ drawing hung alongside a digital screen playing an animation of the drawing as it built up, layer by layer. Here’s the video (email subscribers will need to click the link to see the video on Vimeo.<\/a><\/p>\n