I don't respect Caricatures that are just kinda stereotyped eyes, nose, and mouth on a face shape. That's like 3rd-grader's artwork (please Excuse this generalization). 3rd grad is a time when, because of their comfort with Reading alphabet symbols, their artwork gets symbolized. Symbolic. Certain lines represent certain sounds. And other lines represent certain Pictures.

So just go forward or back. Trying to break away from that, I try to focus on what I really see (but oh eye-function is also connnected to the brain, but that's another story). I try to focus on either See what a Camera would see, or I try to let myself get back to a pre-reading mentality ~ to draw like a 2-year-old. Neither sybolizing 'the face', nor symbolizing the Shapes that we'd see in a photograph. But getting back to that nebula of pure unlabeled vision.

I find this sort of fine-featured face difficult to Cariature ` especially in the Front View. But that's all I saw as I watched this woman speak on YouTube. I guess I could have emphasized the op-shape of her nostril ~ because it's 'different' ~ but that didn't really affect me. So I didn't force a 'funny' by doing that. Unnecessary. I don't have to make anyone laugh.

There I was, pen moving as usual. While watching YouTubes. I tried to 'save' my first picture by adding in a little Color. The Artwork is so Plain ~ almost as bad as the Caricaturists that 'fill in the blanks. But good. It looks like her. Then I tried the simplistic approach differently in the 2nd picture that I drew here. Giving up, Not Outlining. Not setting up for 'the blanks', and I felt like this 2nd drawing is so much more organic. Evolved. Confident. Not bored.

But eeeks. When I look at the final Results, the 2nd one doesn't necessarily Look Better than the first one. Only different. Complicating my life to Be a Real Artist ~ is just making my job harder. It was to just draw the first Caricature.

If I could REALLY get back to the Pre-Symbolic Brain, that would have been worthwhile. For me. If I ever felt like taking the Tiiiiiiime and Effort for it. But the Result would not have been Saleable. And it would not have been usable at a Party ~ when I have to Produce (how many can you do per hour?), and I have to connect with my audience (can't only focus inwards). So I wonder ~ why bother with the 'better' vews that are usable commercially ~ ~ when I could just as well 'just do it'

the corner of my Office Desk. Digital Oil Painting. Fresco app.

This is good Artwork. I can tell because I don't like to look at the picture. Just like I don't like to see the piles and piles of paperwork that I really have to get to already. (I usually just turn my eyes from the paperwork and read the Bible instead. )

Love never fails. G-d watches over me. Like a parent looking over into the crib. Like a parent seeing everything that a toddler does. I am safe. G-d wants to distract me from my tears and fears ~ like a parent cooing to a baby in a crib ~ like a parent distracting a baby with a pretty rattle. G-d wants me to see the pretty 'crib-mobile'. To be mesmerized by it's beauty.

Please contact me at optidust@gmail.com if you can offer me a few dollars to keep/use/download this Painting. I am a Professional Artist. This is how I earn my living

Oh my goodness ~ I could barely force myself away from this Painting. I'm really Enjoying a lot of this Covid-19 stuff ~ if i don't look at how much money I'm Not making while i have time to do my own Art ~ getting a chance to Paint what I'm always Loooooking at. Mindfulness

This is a corner of my desk. Unfinished. It's harder to get them started when you don't rely on photos. Harder to size and place what's going on. But the new Digital Painting apps do make it easier than when we worked directly on paper. The Move-Tool is so helpful at the Start-sketch.

Still, I did have to redesign my initial idea ~ because it was too all-encompassing. The eyes/mind wander from picture to picture when we're just looking around. So it's too many pictures in one when I start designing the Painting.

I'm painting it with the intention of building up that Office Decor Series that I started with Alison's Stapler and the Empty Glass.

When I was done drinking the water, I painted the heavy glass that im always staring at. while i drink the water. This is the 2nd painting I made of 'Office'. Hmmmmm...... with what can i fill my glass now? while I'm staying home with no Party work because the Corona Virus situation discourages gatherings.

You can click on this mp4 link to see how i made this painting (the 2nd link listed here). I used the Fresco app. Oil Paint Tools.

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I HOPE YOU WILL HAVE THE INTEGRITY TO PLEASE CONTACT ME AT optidust@gmail.com IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PRINT OUT THIS OIL PAINTING, OR ANY OF THE OTHER PAINTINGS THAT I POST HERE. IT'S NOT ONLY GREAT FOR OFFICE DECOR, IT'S EVEN POETIC, A REAL ART STATEMENT THAT CAN INSPIRE YOU AT ANY PLACE WHERE YOU WOULD BENEFIT BY DISPLAYING IT.