The Eyes Have It

These are a few of the eyes I have been playing with. For some reason I feel the need to draw eyes, which is counter to what I originally started out with in mind last year when I picked up pencils and paper. I wanted to draw landscapes and still life stuff... but the eyes have it for some reason. Now I am drawing people... mostly so far... as I am drawn to drawing eyes and, well, they go with people.

This was a quick test for sizing of an eye that is not looking straight out. I was getting ready to do another portrait style and wanted to see what size I wanted the eyes to be as they set the stage for the rest of the image. I started the final already based loosely on this test, which I think worked OK.

I did this little ditty to try a colour technique using chalk pastels and damp brush to set the colour to be able to put charcoal over top without picking up the yellow. It worked well but I got carried away with the colour and made it a rounder shape than the eventual eye was to be... that happens when I have no plan or saample but do something from my imagination.

This was the specific eye from my first portrait attempt from last week, I just put it in here as the focus of the portrait was the eye.

What does this have to do with "self" stuff... I think a lot as art is a direct connection to expression of some of what makes us tick. Exactly how I have no idea. Basically I am using this blog as a catch all for all stuff that may or may not be related to Searching for Self. Perhaps I will change the name sometime... perhaps not.

Jeff.