I did this piece as a homework assignment for my portrait class. Only three other kids did the homework so the teacher made all the kids draw from our portraits and we could pretty much do whatever. Why would you not do the homework? The feedback you get is so good.
In an unrelated tangent we had a speaker come to our Type as Image class to talk on Tuesday. His name was Ben Fry. The stuff he showed us was amazing, and while I was watching his presentation I realized I had seen his stuff before, a long time ago Kenny Osbourne had given me a link to his Zip Code Project. It's quite a fun little time waster.
His projects are amazing and intelligent, both artistic and fascinating. It was great to see someone who was an artist but also had an understanding of mathematics and science. To be honest, not a lot of my classmates are very bright, it's nice to know that this MIT graduate is out there as an advocate for intelligent, well-designed art.
The Window 24" x 18" mixed media (c) 2006