Etchings of Time

                                                                 

                                                                  Etchings of Time





A portrait can take years to be sketched.

Details unfold as experience is gained.

The softer lines show the romantic edge,

While the thick bolder lines exploit the hard demeanor.

Trying to display all the twisted turns endured with portraying the full circle of life.

Making soft forceful indentation lines in the forhead,

Along with laugh lines, encased with half circles around the corner of the lips.

Through all the years of life,love and marriages,children and grandchildren, the pain still remains to be seen.

Arched moons for the eyes of delight as

The use of shading is done under the eyes to show the family trait.

Small spectacles placed to show the true age.

Dampering the lips with a pink pastel pencil.

The lips are thin with a touch of bounty in the top points.

The nose is etched in as small and pudgy, but very distinctive.

Before the eyebrows can be sketched, a thick jaw line is drawn.

At the corners of the jaw lines glistening and sparkling, the ears are marked.

Twenty tiny decals dangle from the ear lobes.

Thirteen on the right and seven on the left.

Showing a touch of rebellion.

Finally, to the last embarking detail, the eyebrows.

Curved with a definate notation, the brows umbrella the whole facial structure.

An, oval structure now flowing with brownish grey hair Appears.

The portrait is etched in depth displaying all faceits, with nothing to hide.

Outright and open for all to see.





                                                                  By Cheetahbea                                10/05/2008