Friday, December 20, 2013

Self portrait as someone else

This time the self portrait is to be painted as someone else. I decided to paint myself as a kathakali dancer. The makeup and head dress is very detailed. In this form of dance, a story from Mahabharata or Ramayana is told. The good characters have green makeup. The bad or angry characters have red makeup. The very bad or evil characters have black makeup. The holy characters have yellow makeup.
When I painted myself green, my daughters did not like it at all. But I enjoyed doing it.