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| Attic bedroom interior pencil sketch by O. Douglas Jennings |
I've always considered art drawn of one's living space to be a type of self-portrait. With his famous painting of his room at Arles, Van Gogh must have felt the same way. I made the sketch above while sitting on my twin-size bed in one of the upstairs bedrooms of my parents' home. It was done with an HB Pencil in my sketchbook/diary. I was 22 years old and would be moving to the Chicago area in three months.
Here is a link to a charcoal drawing of this same room 3 years earlier.
The room looks somewhat more sparse than when I previously was staying there. I had moved back home after staying somewhere else for several months. The large wardrobe is gone and I've added a weight bench and dumbells.
When I relocated to the Northwest Chicago Suburb of Algonquin, IL the following August, I would make a sketch of my less spacious accommodations as I roomed with a co-worker where I lived for several months. I should draw a sketch of my current room. Stay tuned.
The room looks somewhat more sparse than when I previously was staying there. I had moved back home after staying somewhere else for several months. The large wardrobe is gone and I've added a weight bench and dumbells.
When I relocated to the Northwest Chicago Suburb of Algonquin, IL the following August, I would make a sketch of my less spacious accommodations as I roomed with a co-worker where I lived for several months. I should draw a sketch of my current room. Stay tuned.
This is also a good place to
include a Google Drive Link to a re-formatted paper wrote in college
about the psychological benefits of self-portraiture -- officially
titled "Psychodynamic Processes of Self Portraiture".
• See my Self Portrait Album on Flickr
• NYTimes Interactive Article on Albrect Durer's Self Portraits
• Room Interior As Self Portraiture
• Portrait Sketches of Friends and Family
© 2020 O. Douglas Jennings
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