It seems I still have an obsession with faces… even when I start with abstract work. To be fair to myself, I am still preoccupied with other work that is in progress. I need to allow myself to be mindful and let the work speak to me. I forced this one a little.
I started by putting down the primary pigments and mixing them a little together. In my view, and this is where I see I could practice mindfulness, I impatiently looked for some pattern or design in the early abstract stages. I even felt myself trying to put a face in there, instead of letting one reveal itself. After the black lines came in, I used a watercolour brush and water to blend the paint into the spaces delineated by the lines. Now that I’m looking at it from a different angle, I see I could have turned this into a beautiful seascape had I not added the lines so early. Live and learn… that’s part of why I’m doing this project after all.
The forcing of the face is unpleasant to me and I can’t feel a good nose, mouth, or chin. The eyes also feel forced to me. I think I’ll try the experiment again tomorrow with our the early line-work.
Stay tuned and please help me with questions.
The New Renaissance Mindset 
Humans are biologically programmed to seek out faces. Perhaps you’re not experiencing an obsession, instead your basic nature is responding. Questions: After the color was laid down did you rotate the page to see how it looks from all angles? Did you consider starting your work in landscape mode?
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Thank you for your comment and questions, Kate.
For this first one, I didn’t reorient the abstract before the addition of black lines. It was only afterward that I saw different possibilities with reorientation. For the next one, it is my intention to let the ink dry fully and look at the abstract from all angles before choosing what I see in it and adding any black lines.
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Thanks for replying. I hope that my questions helped your process.
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Absolutely!
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