Tag: self portrait

  • Creative Training – doin’ my brain in!

    I spent the last two days in a freezing hall in Pontypridd, with a host of other creative people, doing our training as Creative Practitioners for the Lead Creative Schools project in Wales. I’ll be working with the Archbishop Rowan Primary School in Portskewitt this term. I was among a load of creative people from…

  • Ha ha ha! – The laughing cavalier

    Following on the post about shooshing up old portraits, inspired by the work of children I met in Milan this week, here is a picture of me as Frans Hals’ The Laughing Cavalier! I thought I do it because my profile pic on FaceBook has been of me being an astronaut for a while and…

  • Portraits in Milan

    There was a lot of artwork on the walls of the Sir James Henderson School in Milan this week, But the self-prtraits as nobles of the middle ages really grabbed me. Having photos for the faces really made them look real. This looks like a great project to do. Maybe it helps that the faces…