self portrait

this is a self portrait of me i made the back ground by poring blue paint on the door and spreading it around with cardboard then i did the same with the red and scraped it around in wave patterns which relates to the painting convention abstraction  i was originally trying to mack purple but i thought this looked better then i waited for it to dry.  after it dryad which took like most the day because i spread the paint to thick i gridded up the door the squares wore 5cm then i coped the photo graft which i also gridded the squares wore 3cm on to the door then started painting i painted the clothes first, neck, hair then i got started on the face i painted the white side forest i no you cant see by the photo but the white side you can see all the paint strokes but on the brown side its all neat and you cant see the strokes.  After that i pot some caramel colors on my back ground to bring in some of the skin colour and to finely end it i rubbed out the grid.  All in all this all took about three days.  My idea was to create realistic portrait paintings which relates to the painting convention figurative.  the artist I'm trying to relate my art work to is Gerhard Richter my first painting i started with and am trying to relate my aether paintings to is the painting coled Bette which is a self portrait of a girl but in stead of looking at you she is looking away from you