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self portrait 76 by shhightower

self portrait 76

oil on canvas
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***** Don't look back Steve, Holly's right behind you!
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year
You are a master of portraits!
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Well done...I see the furniture maker!
over 1 year
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over 1 year
great picture,Loretta
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Great self portrait. You look like a Roman emperor even with the blue overalls. Serious, low key lighting amazing inscrutable gaze!
over 1 year
thank you Rick love your new one
over 1 year
I see a sad soul in those eyes dear Steve, is everything ok?
Great portrait I might add. 5* warm hugs Hazel
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Great portrait! Well done!5*
over 1 year
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over 1 year
you look alive in the moment very focused
over 1 year
thanks
over 1 year
I love this picture. I like how you captured the daetail! Great Job! - Kisses Faith.
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Great self portrait, Steve.....great expression...I see the artist! 5***** Sincerely, Doris
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Hi steve a great self portrate. It so reminds me of someone in the old west. You look like a carector from a wild west film and that is a complement by the way. Thanks for your comments on my work and i hope i will understan why so many on PIL have done so. Perhaps if I had the confidence you and the others had i could be as good. Your friend Ricky / Mac08
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Great work Steve, like this portrait and your cool Profile. well done! 5*****
over 1 year
thank you so much
over 1 year
Another beautiful self!
Great work!
Kind regards, Iby
over 1 year
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over 1 year
FANTASTIC WORK AS ALWAYS! Another compliment for you is that both Holly and Shane are beautiful looking children. Glad to have made their acquaintence.
over 1 year
thank you very much
over 1 year
love the brush strokes and atmosphere of your portrait Hightower, you seem to have captured a very personal perception.. well done!
love life
T.O.L.A.
over 1 year
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over 1 year
great portrait
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Thhis is wonderful Steve, so rugged and great colours, love it, look like a cowboy!!
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Great portrait Steve in the dificult 3/4 view. Nice colors and strong brushwork... as always. I like it. Kostas
over 1 year
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over 1 year
great portrait steve, a very handsome man proud with lots of character:) i like your portraits .
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Wonderful work with your wonderful style!
over 1 year
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over 1 year
I love this, Steve! I especially like the work on the forehead, great portrait! x
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Hey Steve, another simply wonderful portrait from you. I think I will have to make up one of my big adjectives for this one....mmmm????......I think it is SENFANTERRIFIFABULOUS!!!!!! Paula XXX
over 1 year
thank you Paula
over 1 year
Superb Portrait Painting. The shades and tones are amazing. 5*****
over 1 year
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over 1 year
I like all your self portraits i saw,they reflect a searching eye.
over 1 year
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over 1 year
I like the way you disolve into the background.
over 1 year
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over 1 year
I like the use of color Steve. Good work.
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Une grande maîtrise; et un résultat magnifique.
Marc Laroche
over 1 year
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over 1 year
beautiful powerfull image 5*****
over 1 year
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over 1 year
very nice,although you put me in mind of the great Sam Elliott!
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Hello my friend Steve. What a wonderful painting you have done again. Just wonder what you are thinking about? Such a deep thought look on your face. Love it. Gentle hug,Norma
over 1 year
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over 1 year
love the portrait 5 *
over 1 year
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over 1 year
very nice work dad i love this one you were trying a new paint if i remenber right
over 1 year
thank you steven
over 1 year
i could never do people
over 1 year
Aww come on give it a try you might be surprised!
over 1 year
Powerful !!!!!
over 1 year
Thank you Italia
over 1 year
Very impressive:)
over 1 year
Thanks Nandor
over 1 year
excellent! i saw your daughter... or niece glad the talent runs in the family.
over 1 year
Thanks Dustin, yeah she's my baby daughter stayin right on my tail!
over 1 year
Hello Steve, finally caught up with my backlog..I have had a really bad virus, and just couldn't get my brain cells to comment or even muster up the energy to do anything..still feeling a little out of sorts.
You know what I think of your art...you are an extremely talented young man with a great style...and this was painted eons ago...blinking marvellous honey...xx
over 1 year
Glad to hear you're feelin better alison I've heard a couple glasses of wine will help that, it;s good for the blood. Thanks, Steve
over 1 year
Oh by the way that wasn't that long ago,lol, around "99 actually, I was trying out some, at the time new line of Prima Oil paints. They have a fantstic pigment.
over 1 year
ahhh..my fault, thought the 76' meant the year...LOL xx
over 1 year
I love this self portrait!....great!
over 1 year
Thanks Rose love your work
over 1 year
Great portrait - you don't give too much away though your eyes are gentle but far away, I love it !
over 1 year
I appreciate your commenting
over 1 year
good work
over 1 year
Thanks for the notice Benedictus
over 1 year
lovely portrait. Beautiful brushstrokes & the colours are great especially love the way you have merged into the background
over 1 year
That was one of the things I was playing with at the time thanks so much Denise
over 1 year
Boy...You got some character.....you pulled yourself right out there. Thanks for showing it.
over 1 year
Sure Rod, thanks
over 1 year
loving the looseness and pose Steve, a convincing portrait!
over 1 year
thanks Mark as always My respect
over 1 year
Hazel Mabbott

Thank you so much dear Steve, I'm trying to slow myself down,I feel like I am racing through a tunnel towards a light at 100 km an hour,no brakes.lol.
awesome. Ignoring the darkness. warm hugs and God bless,Hazel.
over 1 year
Sometimes that's best just go to fast to notice. Hazel be happy!!!
over 1 year
A good strong impressionits portrait
over 1 year
Thanks Leecuddihy
over 1 year
fantastic self portrait. Love the glowing skin tones. 5 stars+ Steve.

Pam
over 1 year
Thanks Pam! did you get that canvas stretched yet?
over 1 year
Yes I did Steve. It was OK but my corners were nt that good. But I will get better with experience. I was quite proud of myself. Almost like creating another painting. lol :)
over 1 year
This is awesome.. I love self portraits and this supports my theory that you are indeed a master sir!
over 1 year
Thank you Chris
over 1 year
The man himself with the mood expression(s), do i see a pinch of sadness here? Steve my friend i can only say > your art are surprising, constanly changing like mood-searching and you just masterly work it thrue like second nature?.
Sincere respect. Fanie
over 1 year
Thanks my friend, much appreciated
over 1 year
Hello Steve... Exccellent expression in this portrait really wonderful movement in the brush strokes painted in beautiful colours and a fab intense atmosphere in this portrait...really 5***** work...: )
over 1 year
Thank you so much Dawn
over 1 year
Nice painting...very serious!
over 1 year
Thank you Nancy
over 1 year
professional work.
over 1 year
Thank you Maka
over 1 year
Interesting portrait, I have voted for that work!
over 1 year
Thanks Davina
over 1 year
Really soulful portrait with great skin tones.
over 1 year
Thank you Robin
over 1 year
Great portrait Steve, I love the brush strokes, bold yet suttle. The whole painting has a nice rugged feel. Very nice, Lin
over 1 year
Thank you Lin
over 1 year
Superb work!!
over 1 year
Thanks Varvara
over 1 year
in each of your portraits,there is something new that grabs my attention.this time it's the expression in the eyes.well painted.nice tones.
over 1 year
Thanks Deidre, love your beautiful work
over 1 year
great portrait with full live!
over 1 year
Thanks William, love your golden beauty
over 1 year
Manly man Steve, brings me back to 'little house on the prairie', like how the lower half fades into - dare I say it- unfinished painting. Respect, Maurice
over 1 year
HaHa that's fine Maurice, I wondered whe n that was gonna come up, it is finished for me. It wasn't meant to be a highly polished portrait. I did it very quickly, trying out some new oils, I have always considered it an oil sketch. Thanks my friend
over 1 year
Hi Hightower, I love your brush strokes in your portrait. Great work! I look forward to your next new piece. Cheers, Debra ;)
over 1 year
Thanks Debra love your sky, very beautiful
over 1 year
nice to meet you, 5 star
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Did a wonderful job!!!! I love it
over 1 year
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over 1 year
I am 37 and I love how you showed your earlier years
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Like your "Edvard Munch like" approach...the lower unfinished part is bringing kind of expressive feeling into the whole of the splendid pained portrait of yours.
over 1 year
thank you Chris
over 1 year
Your portraits are always perfect!!!!!
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Nice portrait. Unembarrassed and intense brushwork. 5*
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Steve, this is fantastic, great work. I have much too learn.
Wonderful brush strokes. I love it!!!!
over 1 year
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over 1 year
I see disappointment and pain in the eyes and feel a little sad, when I look at the painting. I would like too kiss away his look and make him feel happy!
I think you are a great artist, when you can paint like that.
A little kiss from Eva
over 1 year
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over 1 year
awesome
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Steven, you are a lovely man! And you're self portrait is GREAT!
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Steve, what a powerful self-portrait. I agree with everyone above, and what a joy to have both your children on this site as well.
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Excellent job :)
over 1 year
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over 1 year
great work and very well done!!!!!
over 1 year
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over 1 year
Great texture in your work Steve! Always.
over 1 year
thank you Roy
over 1 year
Wonderful self-portrait Steve. I really love your style!
over 1 year
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over 1 year
auperb again and again!
over 1 year
Hi all, I am sending all my friends on pil the same message, as it would take me hours if I didn't just copy & paste!:)
You may have or not as the case may be noticed that I have not been around for a week...well, I was rushed into hospital on Thursday with what turned out to be a Hemorrhage in my lower abdomen...Really really painful!!! but glad to say on the mend now, especially after a few good shots of morphine..:)) Any hows I am still abit weak, but will catch up with everyones new paintings when I feel a bit stronger...It's good to be back, I have missed all of you even if you have not missed me..LOL.....Alison xxx
over 1 year
Hi Shhightower,
Thank you for your comment on my artwork.
Your painting is quite specific it is my opinion.
Seems me on Lucian Freud expression, do not know why.
This portrait is my favorite. Great 5+
BEST REGARDS,
8 months
very nice
6 months
Hi there Shhightower, the wisdom in those eyes are amazing you have captured them extremely well with the emotion that is spread across your face it is great, yours victor
4 months
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shhightowerBorn in Tulsa Oklahoma 1949, started painting at an early age, with no formal training. Hightower works in oil, acrylic, ink, watercolor, and pencil. In addition to his Western work, he has created a series of oil paintings, illustrations to the Old and New Testaments. He and his wife Teresa installed these paintings on a rotating basis in churches in their home area, free of charge.
I also played drums professionaly for 33 years. Played the Dallas Ft. Worth area, Houston, Waco and all over Oklahoma, Started playing in Arizona at age 14, in "64 we cut 4 singles on the Pride label. Worked with Charlie Pride, Johnnie Lee Wills, Billy Parker, at Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I produce a line of artist signed lodge furniture and accessories since 1979 to present date, I have it on a myspace site, please feel free to add me.
Hightower is a documented artist in the library of The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa Oklahoma you can email crazydrumer53@yahoo.com and my myspace site is www.myspace.com/artman60
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