Thinking the forms over, I realized why it is that I'm attracted to certain feautres found in certain faces, most of them( the faces) being statuary- it's the shadows. I love the way that a hard shadow can appear to be soft around the edges. My waves for these feautures has a link...I have two muses as artists. We went to highschool together but they were older than I and thus a big influence. It was in those drawings of theirs that I saw a mastering of the soft/hard shadow combo.
I've been told that my style is "drama queenish" and I've gotten the craving to learn how to draw with softer lines. So, I started a set of drawings where the white space becomes just as important as the mixed media oozing onto it. My forms are the tops of eyelids, the grooves of the lips and sometimes the chin. These are places that can be cupped by the lips, not merely the hands whose sensory perceptors aren't as acute. They aren't as delicate. Check out the photo of the graffiti guerilla art- it's a pretty good example of having hard and soft in a nice functional mesh- like hotdogs. Hotdogs with cheese in a nice sweet bun where the cheese meshes with the dog and forms a glop in your mouth that can only be washed down with a Coca light. Delicate but harsh simultaneously.
~Nicole
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