Self-Portrait Pencil Sketch

One of the characters of Mourning Dove is a portrait artist, and his self portrait is important to the book. This is my own self portrait. I think it shows how I saw myself, shortly after the death of my father.

Picasso Self Portraits

One of the characters of Mourning Dove is a portrait artist, and his self portrait plays an important role in the book. 

I am fascinated by Picasso's self portraits. I collected them, showing them together, each approximately the same size. Here they are.

Picasso Self Portraits

Although I don't really care for abstract art, IMHO the most abstract one here, "Facing Death," might be the most powerful. The blue period is great, but then so are the first two. 

There's a wonderful collage of morphing Picasso and Van Gogh portraits, many of them self portraits, that you might want to check out at this link.

See my own self portrait on this blog.