Eight years in self portraits

I’ve been thinking of doing this for a while, creating one post with all the self portraits – selfies – that I have done over the years. I’ve been examining myself for about eight years now, I haven’t always liked what I’ve seen. But it is an impressive, sometimes scary, sometimes sad and sometimes funny collection. I know I don’t have copies of all of them. They’re spread out over four old computers and some have probably accidentally/ on purposely been deleted.

2008 – Australia

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2009 – Berlin

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2010 – Wales

Caption 1

2011 Berlin

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2012 Berlin > Australia

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badone_2012

2013 – Australia, working as an illustrator

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self_lmmartin

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toothy

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2014 Rural Victoria to Victorian town

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self-july-2014-lily-mae-martin

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2015

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SelfPortrait2015_lily_mae_martin

thoughts_lily_mae_martin

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go_to_sleep_lily_mae_martin

lunchtime_lily_mae_martin

nights_lily_mae_martin

tuesday_lily_mae_martin

heat_lily_mae_martin

aprilnight_lily_mae_martin

morning_lily_mae_martin

july27_lily_mae_martin

DunnyCan_lily_mae_martin

2016

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jan3_lily_mae_martin

thirtythree_lily_mae_martin
I completely hate this one!

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ag_lilymaemartin

identity_lily_mae_martin

body-lilymaemartin

t2_lily_mae_martin

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dinnertimeselfie_lily_mae_martin

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And trust me, this is not all of them and there will be more to come!
I am really proud of my work.

New painting

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I just finished a new painting – 33 weeks. This painting is oil on board, I did it very differently to how I have previously painted and enjoyed it immensely.

I’ve posted some of the developmental sketches and the beginnings of this painting: here.

What is different about this is it is from life and from memory. I did a sitting with the model and developed most of this painting with the sketches and my memory from that sitting. I took some photos for a buffer – but I in no way relied on the photographs like I have in previous works.