An etching idea and a spew of thoughts

I have been struggling with finding something that inspires me to draw. This hasn’t stopped me from drawing, but nothing I have created as moved to the point where I believe I might want to take that idea, perfect it and then spend hours etching it for my printmaking class.

Today was inspiring though and I think I have an idea. I was sketching an eye that ended up creating as a floating mask-like shape over a line drawing of half of a face. I then drew a whole face using glasses as the mask with the eyes appearing “real” and the rest of the face just lines again. For me this represents a suggestion that we are wearing masks and the truth is revealed only through our eyes. We are normally flat, uninteresting creatures, but through holes in the mask we are able to look deeper into each other’s souls.

(On the left is the original inspiration and on the right is the quick sketch of the idea.)

I am not sure if I will use this idea, but I just thought I’d share with you.

School is going well. One week down… a trillion left (or so it seems). I am already beyond sick of Jane Austen. But that is an entirely different blog entry. Everything else is going well, I think. I am currently working on a short response paper covering my personal views on freedom of speech. Well, that is what I should have been doing instead of being inspired. I am probably going to go to bed. Did I mention that today was a really good day? Yes, it was. I am really thankful for friends, for an environment that inspires and for the reminder that I need to spend every day of my life serving God.