Eyes

Recently, I have been trying out different styles of eyes to use as the focal point of my painting. I have also found that I cannot draw symmetrical eyes so I thought maybe it would be easier for me to find pictures of eyes and trace them onto the canvas with pencil and then paint over them. I would like the eyes to have a dark and smokey effect so these are the pictures of eyes that I have found so far. These eye styles are hard to find but I will keep searching. When I get home, I will also look through magazines for them and post them up here.

Last few weeks

Over the last few weeks I have not made basically any progress on my WISE project. I have had many other commitments for after school activities on the weekends and no time during the week due to normal school homework and assignments. Another set back was the fact that I lost the sketch for my painting but it should be easy enough to redraw. The progress that I have made is that I bought the canvas for my painting which I can't remember the dimensions for right now, the paint brushes of different thicknesses and for different painting styles and I also searched for a little squirt or dot bottle to create the dots for the painting but they were either really expensive or in the wrong colour. So I will ask the art staff if they have any that I would be able to borrow for the duration of the holidays to complete my project. I found paint at home which are of the right colours (traditional aboriginal colours) but I am not sure that there will be enough for the whole painting so I will have to buy more. The paints are acrylic however I am not sure whether these are the right paints to use so I will ask my grandmother who is an artist, if these are the right paints to use for this style of painting.

When I get around to resketching the painting draft, I will post it up on here. Before I do that though, I will have some friends and family view the sketch and I will ask them whether they believe it relates to the topic at hand- if not I will rethink my ideas.

what i planned during my holidays!

During the holidays I planned my painting and drew a rough design of it. This is my first option for my painting so I am not sure yet if I will use it as my end product.

• All the aboriginal colours of yellow, red, orange, brown, black and white
• Background: will either be the aboriginal flag or two large rectangles both with a different aboriginal colour or just a plain background with one aboriginal colour.
• The focal point of the painting will be the eyes in the center of the circle of people. The eyes will possibly made of dots.
  
• Circles or dots in a circle pattern all around the outside symbolising people watching the accused person.

I will post a picture of the plan up when I am so I can scan it in.