The First Challenge

Bigoudi:
For some reason, I managed to choose the first challenge... And here it is: Our challenge is to paint a self-portrait without a photo or a sketch.
The reason for this challenge is that Fonda and I always start from photographs for our paintings and we think of our paintings in terms of composition, light and colour... pretty much like a photographer. So I wanted to force us to just paint to paint, without the grid or any idea of what it would look like before. Masters have been doing that kind of self-portrait for centuries and I have done this in school but this was a very long time ago so I think that it is time to give it a try again.