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   A self-portrait for every day of the last 12 months of my 20s. The only rule I abide by is that these portraits have the right to exist, despite being at the mercy of the fates when it comes to time, availability of art materials, and the ups and downs of personhood. By Ala Paredes. Portfolio & contact details @ alaillustration.com, or facebook.com/alaparedes.art.

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    #14: May 1, 2012. Watercolour on moleskine.
I gotta admit that I cheated a little bit with this one. Someone asked me yesterday whether I could “cheat” on my 1 portrait a day project and do several portraits all in one day. 
I replied that the whole point of this project is to strictly follow a regimen of creating one portrait a day, and that part of the challenge of this was to be able to come up with work even when I’m short on time and resources. 
That being said, I spent the night at a friend’s place ended up drawing my “May 1” portrait with red pen, on a wrinkled piece of scrap paper because I didn’t have my art materials with me. 
But somewhere along my walk to my friendly neighborhood cafe today, I lost that piece of paper. 
So I had to make another portrait. 
So, I’ve cheated a bit by making  May-1 and May-2 portraits on the same day. 
Oh, well. 

    #14: May 1, 2012. Watercolour on moleskine.

    I gotta admit that I cheated a little bit with this one. Someone asked me yesterday whether I could “cheat” on my 1 portrait a day project and do several portraits all in one day. 

    I replied that the whole point of this project is to strictly follow a regimen of creating one portrait a day, and that part of the challenge of this was to be able to come up with work even when I’m short on time and resources. 

    That being said, I spent the night at a friend’s place ended up drawing my “May 1” portrait with red pen, on a wrinkled piece of scrap paper because I didn’t have my art materials with me. 

    But somewhere along my walk to my friendly neighborhood cafe today, I lost that piece of paper. 

    So I had to make another portrait. 

    So, I’ve cheated a bit by making  May-1 and May-2 portraits on the same day. 

    Oh, well. 

    — 1 year ago with 5 notes
    #may 1  #watercolour  #Moleskine