self portrait oil painting

Self Portrait Oil Painting by DAVID Ekstrom

No clue why my brain  decided that a snarling face was decently good for painting my first self portrait,  but it did. so far everyone's that seen it has verbally mentioned  positive things towards the painting. which is pretty cool, when my sister was here for her wedding she mentioned a likeness in it, it was cool to get a compliment from her, those rarely seem to happen, maybe its just me.

great exercise tho!, and sort of a fun way to remember what you looked like at that time of year, also a good skin/ flesh oil paint exorcise, i feel like thats why i dont paint humans too often..... alive ones anyway, something about the transparency of the skin with the red of the blood livening up the cheeks and the nose, iv noticed alot of people have a red toned nose, something i dont think iv started noticing until i did this painting. well, new Facebook profile at least.

IM SO FUCKING EXCITED TO MOVE TO SEATTLE.
no more winter... NO MORE WINTER?! FUCK YEAH!
fuck you winter! may you keep all of the shitty people here cold and miserable for their entire lives, and i do just mean, the singled out shitty people, they know who they are  *glare*


hrm... need to start putting togeather a new portfolio for job searchinnnn