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Self-Portrait 5 - Caricature

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Part 5 of the self-portrait series I did in November 2004, an acrylic painting on illustration board. This was supposed to be an abstract step for me. In fact, from part 3 on things were supposed to get a little more and a little more abstract until this piece. But I loved how part 4 came out so much, that and I had a mental breakdown painting it in the first place, that I refused to abstract it. So instead of getting all out-there on the last part, I decided to do things realistically in rendering the painting, but abstract the drawing of me itself. Berkley Breathed, the cartoonist who does "Bloom County" and "Outland," paints his characters in the same fashion for his finer illustrations. So, being a cartoonist at heart, I decided to emulate the style of my mentor in caricaturizing myself, then painted it in a warm tone palette, which Breathed uses as well. The bars of light are from sunlight shining through Venetian blinds onto me.
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You really captured Berke's style quite well