Day 16: You’ve Said a Mouthful

The eyes are the window of the soul, but the mouth is the window to the gullet.

The fun thing for me is even I'm not sure if this is an extreme closeup of some entity or if the canvas itself is the creature and it's all mouth.

This was just a spur-of-the-moment thing. I didn’t know what to paint, but I know one compositional trick is to peer through an opening to see something else, which creates depth of field. The mouth is an opening; a tongue is something else. I’ve always thought the eyes and the mouth are the most expressive parts of the face. Nothing more profound than that. I found this one goes well with the one from Day 18: Self-Portrait, though that was entirely unintentional.