In my early days of painting with the Masters, I had an outdoor art exhibition coming up and decided to create small abstract acylic paintings on canvas using paint scrapers, credit cards, etc. This technique was fairly new to me so I called upon Matisse to come and play with me and help out. During the show someone pointed out a face in one of the paintings and I was surprised and delighted to find myself face-to-face with the Master. The small "self-portrait" of Matisse, off to the right, was similar to a black and white brush with ink self-portrait which I had recently seen at the beginning of a book I was reading about him. I've since tried to find the book which I had taken out from the library but was unable to locate it. However, I was able to find similar self-portraits on the internet from the book "Matisse Portraits" by John Klein, Yale University Press, pages 46 to 49 which can be viewed on the website below:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=BmuWVPja1tgC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=Matisse+self+portrait+brush+black+and+white&source=bl&ots=wWkUdd-9LZ&sig=WU-FRCSH1B-BCjUEKOQR1pu0oHU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=M33cUci7DqiBywG5nYDYAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Matisse%20self%20portrait%20brush%20black%20and%20white&f=false
Here's the co-created "self-portrait of Henri Matisse" as seen on the far right side of my painting. Notice the glasses, long nose, mustache and hairline.
In addition to this, there are two thin lines extending from the left side of the portrait to another part of the painting. More about that in an upcoming blog posting where I will talk about my deep trance channelling experience during which Matisse was asked about co-creating and after which I was able to understand more about the powerful message in the painting we had co-created.
Hope you enjoyed this posting.
Be well and joyful!
Monieca
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