[Janel Maples]

Her right (our left) ear right?

Thanks for the compliment, I'll take it.

Seriously, thank you for saying what you did. Her eyes, and Enzie will recall this, have a very good story to tell about Marvin as a teacher.

I was confussed. I was trying very hard to apply (what hit me in the shower one morning) I have to look at everything on the face as a separate shape on a ball. I have to pay attention to how the light hits that shape and what happens as the form turns away from the light. I have to try and replicate this with paint by choosing the proper value so as to keep that shape it in its proper place on that ball.

Anyway, I was confused because I thought of the eye as a ball, within a ball (follow me?) and I couldn't understand why the lower right side of her iris was lighter than the
upper left. If this was a sculpture and I had a ball within a ball the opposite would be true. So I asked Marvin to explain this. He did more than explain it, he modeled it. Out of my kneaded eraser he made an eye ball, complete with pupil, iris, ball and lid and showed the whole class the anatomy of the eye. The iris is concave behind the lens (I did not know this) therefore it catches the light on the opposite side of where you would think. Ah ha, now I know.

Just one of the many ways his logical approach to painting makes so much sense to me. I bet this is more information than you wanted to know, but I found it extremely valuable.

Enzie--

You liked that napkin trick didn't you? It is one of my favorites. : ) My husband calls it my bartender veneer when that side of my personality comes out to play. But what, no comment on your lap dance? OH, sorry, that was PATTY.