2006 Young Masters Juried Exhibition

Self-Portrait

Allie Jordan

Self-Portrait

Prismacolor pencil

Coppell High School Instructor: Tamera Westervelt

I modeled this piece after Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and Study of a Young Woman; however, I chose to use a downcast gaze to make the subject seem lonelier and to create a feeling of tranquil, slightly sad isolation.