Water Color and Real Life Killers?

For the last two weeks in water color we have been learning to draw and paint a face. Faces are hard to do, but apparently there is a geometry involved. Since I never excelled at math- got a 44% for most of my geometry semester in high school- man was my mom angry... I didnt know if this would work well with me.

So, apparently, if you suck in your cheeks and look in the mirror you will see that their is an almost perfect circle from your hair line to your ear, between your lips, back to the other ear and up to the hair line again. This is the first thing you draw. Then you draw a cross in this circle. The horizontal line goes right through your eyebrows. The arch will be above, while the inside and outside points will be below. You then draw another horizontal line right below it. Depending on the size of the face will determine how far from your first line you go. This line will go straight through the eyes.

Apparently, your eyes should be 1/5 of your face, meaning you have 2 eyes, and the space between is the same amount of space from each eye. Then the amount of space on each side of your eyes is the same size of that eye. Also half of your eye should be the space between the nose and the lip. This is how you start to draw a face. From this point, you glaze and highlight the prominent features.

While we were painting our faces...Keelys look like a guy we work with, not Val Kilmer she was going for. Amy was going for Green Day, and ended up with Edward from Twilight. Mine started out as an Asian women, and ended up as Pocohontas.

During her teaching of how to shade the face, and create realism in the ears and the cheeks, we talked about the TV show Breaking Point (?). I have never seen this show, but apparently is about women who get sick of their significant others beating the crap out of them, and taking justice in their own hands. She was totally for these women not getting prison time, b/c they saved the world from men who beat their wives and kids. Totally not something I was expecting from Betty Joe, but apparently she has a great sense of justice....