'Self Portrait In Lockdown'

Over the last two weeks, as a start of 2021, I became down and out of action artistically and decided to just do artwork of any kind and so I decided to try using my favourite medium and my own facial features to make a self portrait.

Keeping to my style, I removed hair from the top of my head and still went for an unusual distortion of my features and decided to use blue as my main colour to work with.

Along with my known techniques I decided to try adding texture by using a small screwdriver to scratch away at the oil pastels, this allowing a lighter colour to come through the top coat and create dimension in the process.