Robert P. Taylor's: Chippery - Portraits on Paint Chips
Oriented to display the final portrait I saw lurking in it, here is the sample chip at eight stages of development of the final portrait. Additional stages could have been shown, but little clarification would be added. Clearly, before beginning, I saw the chip as a head in profile, the protrusion, its nose, and, in general, the sort of details needed to complete the image, obvious. However, only one orientation "fits" this image, and I had to "see" it, to "see" this portrait potential. Finding a revelatory orientation, below illustrates this, by presenting five alternate orientations of the sample blank chip used above and identifying orientation used here as suitable for the final portrait.
