Thursday, June 22, 2006

The plain face...

Surely post & then take this down... the photo underlaying the drawing (which will surely do more walking), unadorned, plain, as is, the background fuzzed, oh yeah, well...

19JUN06BC

7 comments:

  1. Oh, I look like a cop? :chuckles: We'd have fun, MB!

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  2. you have a mystical, timelessness about you. mezmerizing. lovely blues and pinks and sepia tones. thanks!

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  3. As I age I hope I look like my Great Aunt Jessie, at 70 her pure blue eyes, skin like cream, she was a vision when I met her. I'm 54. Funny, but I had rosacea, and it seems to be gone... ran out of prescriptions about 6 months ago and didn't renew. It's as if Great Aunt Jessie's blessings are somehow... I don't know how to explain it, but Snowsparkle you understand these things.

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  4. This isn't plain, you know. In this photo you are how I imagine a sea-nymph to be ...

    A slightly quizzical look as well - do I believe you or don't I, you seem to be saying.

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  5. Ah, you knew what I meant! I can imagine you as a vision at 70, yes.

    But it's really the look in your eyes in this photograph that stops me. I can't quite put my finger on what that look says. I think perhaps Mary is close. It's so direct.

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  6. Hmmn, plain meaning unmadeup, unposed except that the camera was on timer on the windowshelf, but I like what you've said, Mary, and MB, of course I do!

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