STEP FIVE: (Above) The first image shows where to add the pink highlights. Peach is also a pretty color- or you can use a light green! The right hand side is extremely muted, I placed my pink at the tail end of the white spring. On the bottom, I put it on the darker blue, and the left side was the pizazz side with the most noticeable pink. I overlapped it when it swept upwards with the darker blue.

Hmmm, I'd say that red outline looked like a side profile of a knobby nosed startled man with his mouth open!

STEP SIX: (Above) Let's get more of the base coat to show around the edges of the soon-to-be- pupil. I'm not satisfied that there is enough sweeping outwards. Don't be afraid to experiment! Again, push "chunks" of your base coat into the surrounding colors. Overlap and blend so there are no defining lines separating colors. It should be a gradual fading from one color to the next.

STEP SEVEN: (Above) Add your pupil. They can be plumper, rounder, a wide variety of shapes. The plumper the pupil, the more expressive- think Puss-N-Boots in the movie! The thinner it is, the more alert or calculating the eye appears. Your eyes narrow in brighter light and when startled. Bigger pupils indicate relaxation. Make a quotation mark on the left which fades at both ends. I then made a sliver of brighter white on top of the quotation mark (marked in red.) It's not MUCH brighter, but it's there. You decide how subtle you want it.

Now look BELOW. Put an apostrophe which curves to the left on the right hand side of the eye. Again, it should be muted and the ends should trail off. Add a blob (love that word, so non-technical) on top of it but make sure it blobs off to the side. Mine looks like a peanut.

STEP EIGHT: (BELOW) Almost done! I took out the thick line surrounding the eye- your hand painted creation wouldn't (hopefully) have a big bulky outline. If you do, lose it! Let's put in dark contrast now to make the eye more realistic. Select a darker blue or darker bluish-purple and put a crescent at the top. Sweep it down and around on the left- then LEAVE A GAP as you continue up the right, approximately where the pink exists. I put a little section of the dark between the two pinks on the right.

Add a thin line of the dark color in the pupil. You're done in eight easy steps!