The other day Miguel asked why I don’t paint people or animals. I’ve painted people before, in high school I did a full series with people as the subject. But for now I enjoy flowers, landscapes and presences, although I am not opposed to insects, and maybe someday humans will find their way back into my paintings.

I’ve been thinking about next year’s calendar and I’ve talked about my relationship with the moon in this blog so I wanted to explore faces for the purpose of including a moon-face in next year’s calendar. Miguel’s also been looking at moon-faced watches the past few weeks so I think some of that has subconsciously spilled over into my practice.

It has admittedly been a while since I’ve attempted a face so as a re-intro to faces, I sat in front of the mirror and began to make quick sketches of my face. This is an exercise many art teachers will have you do at some point and it was a nice little way to get back into drawing faces.