Today, I just want to create in my visual diary an in-process record of the mark-and-response going on with a new abstract face.
My attention to illumination and shadow as part of the Rembrandt lighting exploration has led somehow with this particular face to a more highly representational mode than with other faces recently. My inner guide is telling me to get my need for a somewhat photographically-faithful rendering out of my system first.
Then, let's see what else I might want to do. Or not.
I'm thinking more playful and pranky and improbable is a distinct possibility.
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What a fascinating process!
Thanks for supporting my process, Simone. It is evolving on its own, and it is fascinating me, too! Lots of engagement, learning, discovery, and flow. More to come …
Fascinating is definitely the operative word. Looks like there’s a very handsome man hiding in the wings.
He is surprisingly handsome! I will fiddle with light and shadow a bit more; then I do want to dare to mess him up a bit, make him look 'lived-in.' Stay tuned!
oh oh OH! This one really grabs me! As do the words "playful and cranky", which lit up my face with a HUGE smile!
This guy is really grabbing me for some reason, too, Jen! But he's calling out to wildly divergent parts of me. Today I will probably continue to honor the monochromatic values call. But who knows what might happen after that? Surely not I.
Powerful, graphic, moody. thought provoking. I love the last view. I can swear I see an eye. It's there. The palette, the bright lines. The clean shapes. WOW!
Thanks once again for your feedback and identification of elements of visual language, Sheila, for putting words to the visual in ways I have not done for myself.
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