• more about #painting
    BlondeGrlz: I have a large-ish framed picture of myself from my wedding portrait sitting. I have no idea where to hang it so it's leaning against a wall behind a ... more »
    hfree: My parents have a portrait of me done when I was 6 (it hangs by a portrait of my dad also done when he was 6). I've always kind of hated it. Then agai... more »
    Seriously: To Sadies EX: Please please please take a photo of said portrait and send it to Sadie ASAP so she can post it here and we can all see it...c'mon, you ... more »
    rocknrollunicorn: I read the full article and I kind of love it. George Hamilton is f-ing awesome: One happy result of having a gigantic portrait of himself is that he ... more »
    Aesop's Foibles. YES.: I think it takes a special kind of narcissism to commission-and then display- a giant portrait of oneself. It's like people who have mirrors everywher... more »
    tscheese: Is that...actually supposed to be a picture of her? I could do better with Deviantart and some fingerpaints. Fuck, it's like someone shat all over a P... more »
    MJ: That painting reminds me of the photo my daughter had done when she was 9 months pregnant. It is beautiful. I wish I'd thought to do the same when I... more »
    pear.shaped.Sara: OK, I have a nude portrait of myself, from when I modeled for art classes in college. I bought if off the kid who painted it. It's at my parents hou... more »
    Cattivella: I want to do this. Have a GIANT painting done of myself in some ridiculous setting - like riding the back of a white tiger or standing on a jetty in a... more »
    SomeAuthorGirl: Sadie, that is downright creepy. The size of it alone intensifies the weird factor. Your ex - hooray that he's an ex. more »
    Macloserboy: I'm personally going to commission a black velvet "Zodiac Sex Positions" painting with me and different women I've slept with. But I'll have the big ... more »
    rocknrollunicorn: But, your ex is gross. That is weird, and gross, and if he needs to keep it, that is like the definition of what storage lockers are for. more »
    rocknrollunicorn: I don't know. If people are hiring themselves out as portrait painters, it's not exactly a slaving away scenario. Presumably, they like it -- isn't th... more »
    LucilleMcGillicuddy: That is the fucking tackiest painting I have ever seen - and that includes those ones they sell hung up on the fence next to the gas station. more »
    clevernamehere: I don't get the artisan slave angle. If you're a portrait painter, don't you look for people who want to have their portrait painted. Bonus if they wa... more »
    tewkesbury: This puts me in mind of the portrait my neighbors had painted of their young daughter sitting with their dogs...but not their older daughter. more »
    EdnasEdibles: I once went to someone's house and she had a HUGE painting of herself in her dining room. She was painted barefoot, while wearing a ballgown petting h... more »
    Phyllis Nefler: When I am famous, I will commission an artist to render a portrait of me, naked, on the back of a Pegasus, flowing hair swirling around my body and ey... more »
    EkaterinaBallerina: I can't imagine ever putting some god-awful portrait of myself in my home. It just reeks of narcissism. The closest thing I have to a "portrait" of my... more »
    JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!: OMG, it's like the terrible portrait of that Doug and Carrie got from the Palmers. Except real! more »
  • #memyselfandi

    Stars: They're Just Like Us! Except For, You Know, The Giant Life-Sized Portraits Of Themselves.

    The recession has not hurt Hollywood's booming terrible-portrait business, although the stars make a big show of finding the likenesses embarrassing. They should. More »
  • #claudemonet

    Last Impressions

    When Claude Monet's beloved wife and muse Camille died at 32, the artist responded the only way he knew how: a vivid, evocative painting that would hang over his own deathbed 47 years later. [Obit]