Sharp
Sharp. Ink and Acrylic. 2020 The story of this piece is actually quite interesting. It was 11:30 p.m., I was hours into watching my favorite series on Hulu (One Tree Hill), and I got a sudden burst of inspiration/motivation, but not for this piece. Instead, I felt motivated to work on a different piece I had started about two weeks prior. However, soon after starting this rather time consuming and challenging piece, my inspiration for it quickly died as I felt the quality of my work at the time was not up to my standards. So then I stopped working on that piece, and within 30 minutes, Sharp was born. I got the idea (or should I say eye-dea) when I glanced at my fridge and saw one of my eye doodles that I had made earlier in the week. So then I thought, "you know what? I'm gonna draw an eye... but with sharpie markers and on a canvas." And so, I did! Immediately, a problem had surfaced- I had no skin colored sharpies. In fact, I only had bright reds, yellows, o