I See Faces

I see faces everywhere, do you? I mean faces in the clouds, trees, mountains, bushes, sidewalks, ceilings, walls – everywhere, everywhere, always, always, every day. I want to learn to draw so I can render them. There is so much information in them. Endless stories pour out of them.

I have a little pencil drawing in my office that I made of faces I saw in the patterns in beams of wood above the bed of my friend’s house in Italy where I stayed for 5 weeks a couple of years ago. Since I was there so long, and the patterns stayed so consistent, I was able to actually draw them. Those faces tell me stories all of the time because of my little untrained pencil renderings, continuing unfolding stories. If I could capture the ones that I see fleetingly, like when the sunlight hits the trees in a certain way, or the moonlight on the grass – whole worlds pour out of those faces but then they are gone. Someday I will learn to draw and that is what I want to draw.

2 Responses to “I See Faces”

  1. Jim Obermeyer's avatar Jim Obermeyer Says:

    I don’t know if it’s still in print, the name of the book is “Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain”, great for quick sketches.

  2. Tayria Ward's avatar Tayria Ward Says:

    Thanks a bunch for the recommendation. I will look for it.

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