Faces 8

Oh my gosh! Faces!

Who knew? 

I've never turned my attention to drawing/painting faces or portraits before. Well, that's not entirely true. I drew a self-portrait, as directed, for the front of my kindergarten report card. I drew a Raggedy Ann doll—replete with face—in a junior high school art class. I replicated my kindergarten self-portrait decades after kindergarten and now use it as my profile picture online. But that's all that comes to mind.

What was I waiting for?

In a day otherwise crowded with tasks and challenges, I drop out of rush-rush-rush, out of hurry-up, out of monkey-mind chatter, and into flow and inner stillness as I paint another abstract face today.

The Friend Who Voices Strong Opinions
9 x 12"; acrylic, ink, oil pastel, and collage on drawing paper
abstract face
2021
$45

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art history

Faces 4

What is it to be kind to yourself?

It’s to rest from wishing 

things were otherwise. 

They aren’t. 

Relaxing into what-is 

brings actual relief. 

Since something in us 

already knows the truth, 

to cease fighting it 

is restful. 

Jan Frazier, Be Kind to Yourself

Relief. 

One face at a time. Post as I'm ready. 

Start lesson two whenever I start lesson two.

Follow Amanda's model in titling my abstract face paintings. She calls her ongoing series Friends With Faces, and each title starts with the words The Friend Who.

Done.

The Friend Who Picks Up Aunt Bett at Logan
9 x 12"; acrylic and ink on drawing paper
abstract face
2021
$45