Self Portrait, 29
Dec 9, 2023

~12" diam x 18" height, (pictured in clay, unpictured cast in plaster)
I spent a lot of 2023 searching for my "style" as an artist. I'm not really sure I'm "there" yet, and I'm not 100% sure I will ever feel comfortable claiming a style.
For now, in the early stages of developing my skill, I have decided to focus on portraiture as a genre, rather than to develop a practice around a consistent style. I have been too timid up til now to hire models or call upon friends to be my models, so I spent a month making sketches of my own face every day, then starting to sculpt my own self portrait.
Through the process of creating this self portrait, I decided to begin a project to capture my own image at least once per year in sculpture. Eventually I plan to look back and see how I have developed and changed "styles", developed and improved skill, and capture a memory of myself at different stages of my life.
I'm really happy with the way this turned out from the angle shown here, and I see a lot of room for improvement from other perspectives.