Assignment one

Science or Nature

When I was first introduced to this idea of Science or Nature my mind focused on colors and how I have learned about them in most of the science classes I have taken in my life. From the rainbow to natural dyes my mind focused on iris pigmentation in humans.  The variety of colors that the human eye can be intrigues me and I would like to explore why the colors are the way they are.

Working with mixed media for this assignment could help me recreate the iris colors more easily.  I would like to use white and black charcoal, pastels, and acrylic paints.  Mixed media is one of the ways I like to challenge myself in drawing. 

My drawings won't be the traditional straight on eye. I want to draw closer to the eye so I can eliminate the eye lids and lashes and just focus on the layers of the colors that make the color the viewer sees on an everyday basis. Looking closer at photographs of the iris shows how the iris can look like fibers assembled together. 

I would like to have a drawings of several different colors at interesting angles making the iris almost undetectable of being an iris and more an abstract organic form you could find in nature. 

I will keep looking for artists to study from for this assignment as of now I don't have any yet.