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He must be known for it, offline, too.

it is an extraordinary talent to be able to paint a self portrait that is "looking" at the viewer of the portrait i would think.

in my imagination of how it is done, i would think that the person looks at their self in a mirror, and then looks away from the mirror toward their painting to paint what they eidetically remember they saw while looking at the mirror.

unless they have some sort of transparent paper covering the mirror that they paint on, and then place that transparent paper on an opaque background when they are finished, i can not see how it is done any other way.

if it is not done that way, then their reflection in the mirror would show them looking away from the mirror while they are painting on their medium, but that would be impossible because they can not see themselves in the mirror while they are looking away from the mirror at their painting. i guess they have an excellent memory of every detail of their face that they capture from their brief moments of looking at themselves in the mirror.


when i look in a mirror i feel sure i know what i look like, but as soon as i look elsewhere, i forget the finer details of what i look like.

i wonder if there are any self portraits painted before the advent of mirrors. in fact a much more curious idea is that before the advent of mirrors, not many people would have known what they looked like at all. some may have seen their reflection in still waters, but the majority would have had no idea what they looked like.

Or go by a photo, maybe? I can't paint or draw stuff like that at all, though!

I don't know what's worse - the look on my face or the camera quality.
Alas, I couldn't find a better camera, so I used my old laptop's webcam.



I've found that the Soviet hat doesn't fit on my head.
It does on Soviet Bear's, though, which is why he's called Soviet Bear instead of Bear.
Interesting detail: bought when I was too young to remember, he had clothes depicting American sports.

Disclaimer: creepy remarks are all in jest.

you are a beautiful man.
i hope this does not offend you. you should consider modeling.

Pretty top & lovely smile!

Aw thank you! Hey that cup sort of matches my top...

Hmm, not much!

Thanks Bruce. Yes you got it right.

Wow, lucky guess, then! Cheers.

Thanks Kerseki

Hi B9, your answer is to use two mirrors, but I cheat. I hold my camera at arms length, or put in on a pile of books. I don't recall when self portraits first came about. Certainly the early Renaissance was the time when mirrors came really good and at the same time painting was taking great leaps forward. Van Eyck, who some call the greatest draughtman of all time, has been given a lot of the credit.

That's a nice looking place where you are. Can you tell me where it is? I am old now, so can say nice girl as well, and hopefully get away with it.

You mean, pretty girl? I'm 'young' but got away with saying it, already!

This is in Manitou Springs, Colorado. And yes of course you can get away with calling me nice!