Charlie Goff-Deakins Art is a very creative artist
from Buxton UK. He paints lovely portraits of celebrities and people with real
emotion his work is effortless. His latest project was on “Selective Attention
Series”.
The challenge for Charlie was painting my portrait “Heather” with
sunglasses. Charlie said “I’m so pleased with the outcome-as an “alternative”
fixation point (as there are no visible eyes) I used the dark shadows of the
eye sockets as the main central point. The contrast in light at this particular
area drew my eyes towards the middle. A process that’s commonly referred to as
bottom-up attention this is a process where your eyes are immediately drawn to
key areas of contrast (in light, colour etc) and where you find the main points
of fixation.
It is thought by the brain that this is where the
key points of information are contained and so therefore points of interest
that need prompt attention. The end result still ‘’anchors’’ my eyes to
the dark areas in the middle of the sunglasses. “ To see more on Charlie’s work
check out the links below.
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