AND SO IT BEGINS

My name is Benjamin Gray. I am a senior in the Animation program at the Art Center Design College in Tucson, Arizona. Here I shall keep track of my various musings and products of these musings. Mostly the latter. Anyway, I recently made a bet (yesterday, to be exact) with my painting teacher and a fellow student to see who could keep up with one self portrait a day for a year. That is three-hundred and sixty-five painted self portraits.

GREAT SCOTT!

So. Here is my first portrait, started on the 2nd, but counting as the 1st, as I have shit to do, dammit.



I do not have a handlebar moustache. But it was better than killing myself over my actual moustache.

And now for the set up, and some more:



My makeshift studio. Hell yes.



I am unraveling the mysterious reasons why some painters paint their sink.



TURPENOID: IT'S WHAT'S FOR DINNER



I think this was about an hour into it.