Theme: The Eyes have it.
Host: Tobi Hoffman
Due Date: May 4, 2013
When I was growing up, one friend of the family had a
drawing by an artist who specialized in scientific illustration. The picture was maybe 15 inches wide and 10 or 12 inches in height, and
quite accurate in detail; at that size, it was a striking piece of art. A one-time artist roommate of mine once chose a
Time Magazine cover of Martin Luther King Jr. as a subject; she painted one eye
first, and then moved out from there for a complete portrait, but that eye was
still notably the center. Many writers
and sages have used the eye as a metaphor, praised the beauty of a lover’s
eyes, talked about it as the window of the soul. For this challenge, focus your eyes
on the Eye, or Eyes, as the subject. It
may be part of the face, or stand by itself, be realistic or not, be a single
eye, a pair of eyes, many eyes or pairs of eyes. For that matter, it may not be even a human
eye, but an animal’s, cat or goat or fish.
As an added piece of the challenge, take one of the
following quotes (or find any other that you like) for further inspiration:
The eyes are the mirror of the soul. Yiddish Proverb
The eye is the jewel of the body. Henry David Thoreau
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. Jean Toomer
When life gives you lemons, squirt
someone in the eye. Cathy Guisewite (“Cathy” comic strip)
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go
through the intellect. G. K. Chesterton
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the
body. Marcus Tulius Cicero
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out
of focus. Mark Twain
The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the
imagination awake. Leonardo da Vinci
You never know how you look through other people's eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
An eye for an eye
only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
Images of the eye:
And some specific examples of eyes in quilted art:
And one further note: have fun with this!
