tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32695075322870851242024-02-02T16:49:12.161-07:00ellen nobel's self-portrait a day (well...maybe 2 or 3 a week, or so)A self portrait each day--well, nearly.
All images copyrighted.Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-74140036439612188382019-10-09T16:18:00.000-06:002019-10-09T16:18:09.933-06:00Ka-Boom!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="color: cyan;"></span><br />Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-18784588931658384022016-01-12T16:35:00.002-07:002019-10-09T16:01:29.349-06:00Altered Girl With a Hair Ribbon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">Lichtenstein is one of my favorite pop artists. I altered his<i> Girl with a Hair Ribbon</i> into my own version of<i> Girl with Eye Glasses.</i> </span>Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-8766444450040068192015-11-01T10:49:00.000-07:002019-10-09T15:52:34.382-06:00Two Sides<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I was poking through a book of Picasso's work. </span></div>
Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-42565595826013996202015-09-29T13:24:00.001-06:002019-10-09T15:48:01.364-06:00And Then There Were Five<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">This, the final of the series of 5 triangle self portraits. (See first post.)<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">Imagine a wall filled with these canvases! </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">They can be configured in any shape or direction. </span></div>
Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-45326534082265925032015-09-28T13:35:00.001-06:002019-10-09T16:02:25.073-06:00I Paint, Therefore I Am<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-34327692778260685172014-08-06T15:46:00.001-06:002019-10-09T15:36:24.359-06:00Another Point of View<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">This one, 4th of a series of 5 (see first post), was rather awkward to do. I had a triangle of masking tape on my little table-top mirror. To see my profile, however, I needed a second mirror to see the first. Perhaps next time I should try to paint the top of my head. Hmm...how many mirrors would I need then?</span></div>
Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-69324180547444165702014-07-30T10:00:00.001-06:002019-10-09T15:24:18.588-06:00All the Better To See You With.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">Anyone who knows me, knows I love eye glasses--all styles. (And those who don't know me, will notice my penchant in these self portraits!) </span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;">Phooey on those old 'beauty' charts that determined which frame style was the (only) shape suitable for your face shape.</span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;">If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then celebrate them<span style="font-size: large;"></span>! Glitter! Color! Rhinestones! Whoo-hoo!</span>Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-68643845777354214072014-07-26T18:40:00.001-06:002019-10-09T15:11:19.708-06:00Isolation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">Today I felt so isolated. How is it possible to be so alone among people you know?</span></div>
Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-90885181490637524172014-07-21T16:54:00.001-06:002019-10-09T15:34:37.583-06:00And Now With Round Ones...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">Another mini portrait, 3rd of the series of 5. (See the first blog post.)<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div>
Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-72472563159546892382014-06-09T20:37:00.001-06:002019-10-09T15:07:06.275-06:00Snowflake People<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">I'm not even sure what these are called--those snipped, folded lengths of paper that unfurl to chains of repeated shapes like beads on a string. I remember grade school ceilings filled with hanging snipped paper snowflakes. I clipped the classic 'girl in a dress' shape. Each one may be a mini-me. Today, I wanted only to enjoy color!</span>Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-61280277180815666842014-05-28T12:37:00.001-06:002019-10-08T17:36:39.936-06:00a la Van Gogh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">Though the result seems a bit vague, I chose to use only diagonal lines. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">Thank you Post-Impressionists! </span></div>
Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-21189925966545323332014-05-27T16:20:00.002-06:002019-10-08T17:30:33.550-06:00X-ray of Egypt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">Remember those advertisements on the back pages of comic books? Do you remember the quirky little cartoon of a boy wearing x-ray glasses? </span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;">I imagined myself as an ancient Egyptian with x-ray glasses. Here I draw her seeing through to the skeleton of the lion in the cartouche of my name. Imagine looking into a sarcophagus! </span>Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-32317031896982693132014-05-05T09:24:00.001-06:002019-10-09T16:06:30.185-06:00The Eyes Have It<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-64173512556308198142014-05-04T17:27:00.001-06:002019-10-08T17:29:31.555-06:00The Orphan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">This one perplexes me. I have the book<i> 642 Things To Draw.</i> The book is full of pages with empty boxes with a drawing prompt tucked in the corner. This one was labeled Orphan. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">I saw that word and was riveted to it. Both my parents had recently passed. Even though the word 'orphan' typically refers to a child, and I am well into late adulthood, I felt the weight of that word. My parents are gone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">I decided to draw me, the orphan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">It happened that the mirror I had set-up was elevated from where I sat. I paid no particular attention to this until I finished my sketch. By drawing myself looking up, I seemed to have drawn a young version of myself--which was quite unintended! Without being aware of it, I had drawn the child in me who misses her parents.</span></div>
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Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-38087163387819766242014-04-16T20:09:00.001-06:002019-10-08T17:28:58.468-06:00Orange, It Is.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">Ok, ok. Technically, this isn't a drawn self-portrait, but it is a photo of me. Who knew that one could have such fun altering a photo.</span></div>
Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-33361975434836129602014-04-15T14:59:00.001-06:002019-10-08T17:28:36.358-06:00Wait! I Got It!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">What to draw? What to draw? </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">Often I'll sit with pencil in hand and have absolutely no inspiration. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">A-Ha! Then the proverbial lightbulb, that comic book convention that tells us the character has an idea, pops up. Literally! ...well, on paper anyway...</span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;"></span><br />Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-54353390444519298182014-04-10T12:35:00.001-06:002019-10-08T17:28:11.633-06:00It Can Be Done!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">Challenge: draw my self portrait in 10 seconds or less.</span></div>
Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-69631982288471215412014-04-07T22:52:00.001-06:002019-10-08T17:27:47.638-06:00My Space Intentionally Left Blank<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">Sometimes I feel invisible. Do I have anything to say? Can anyone see me?</span></div>
<span style="color: cyan;"></span><br />Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-89753307645475603552014-04-01T12:49:00.001-06:002019-10-09T15:33:44.273-06:00The 2nd One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">A 2nd triangle of the series of 5.. With 8" sides, it's just a wee thing.</span></div>
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<br />Ellen Nobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06782496113362570216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269507532287085124.post-23491946257759954742014-03-31T16:50:00.001-06:002019-10-08T17:26:58.292-06:00Bin Delights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan;">A favorite pastime is perusing an art supply shop--particularly the discount bin. You never know what treasures you'll find. On this particular day I found 5 small triangle canvases, the sides were just 8". I had no idea or plan for them, I just knew I had to have them. Well, it seemed that the canvases needed to percolate in my storage cupboard for a few years until I had the 'A-ha! I finally know what to do with them!" moment. I pulled out my little round mirror and blocked off a triangle with masking tape. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">What a hoot! I had a great time!<span style="color: #ffd966;"></span><span style="color: magenta;"></span><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"></span></span></div>
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