Blending and Faces!

Today I played digital blending as well as faces.

This started as an abstract created using Twinkling H2O’s. Then I scanned it and played digital blending with a photo of sand patterns. This is the result.

Todays face got the works!

I was so determined she wouldn’t have any strange paint marks today that I gessoed the page before I started! Then I had to draw her face on the gesso. I hate pencil drawing on gesso! – it smudges everywhere!Luckily the putty rubber does a good job of cleaning up! To stop further smudging I started off with an acrylic wash base, then coloured her face and hair using watercolour pencils. I added some background colour using Twinkling H2O’s. I must admit – I’m quite pleased with the final result. What do you think?

29 Faces – # 8

Back to a younger face today!

I’m quite pleased with the way she turned out, except for the blue shading round her mouth (paint bleed through from the next page!). I gave her a wash of acrylic paint under the pencils to try and hide the blue, but as you can see… it didn’t work!

29 Faces – # 7

Today I chose a less glamorous, older face to copy.

I think I’ve aged her by at least 10 years, and made her look very unhappy as well! I’ll keep trying! … back to the sketchbook for some more practice!

29 Faces – # 6

I’m a bit happier with todays face…

… she still doesn’t look too much like the image I was copying – but that’s what this exercise is all about – practising to improve!

29 Faces – # 5

I’m not as happy with today’s face…

… she started out alright, then seemed to go wrong with the colouring. I may try painting over her and trying again … or then again I might just move on to something new!

29 Faces – # 4

I really enjoyed copying a face from a magazine yesterday, so I thought I’d do another one today.

I had a lot more confidence today! I really like the dry watercolour pencil effect and the outline hair. What do you think?

Finally finished!

Yes! – I have finally finished my game board for last weeks Life Book lesson from Kelly Hoernig.

I ran out of space on my board to glue my car, so I attached it to a hinge so that it could be flipped to see the board underneath.

I may add some flowers to the roadside later – I can’t decide at the moment!

Meanwhile the ingredients list! I used collage, white gesso, acrylic paint, Artist Cellar stencils, a home made mask, some ribbon, a button, a little jute, a uniball eye pen, some digital text, most of a cotton bud, plus some ink and hot glue.

I really enjoyed making this – thank you Kelly for a great lesson.

29 Faces – # 2

Here’s my face number two.

I drew her in pencil, then coloured her using acrylic paint and watercolour pencils.

I’ve been busy finishing my game board for last weeks Life Book lesson and hope to post it tomorrow.

Time Flies!

Doesn’t the time just fly by! I can’t believe it’s a week since I last posted here. In between a very special birthday, the celebration of which got delayed by snow over the entire country, followed by a nasty tummy bug which laid me out for a day, I’m only just catching up with myself now!

It all began when I had some leftover paint from creating cards for this week’s Life Book lesson. As usual I painted a page in my notebook with what was left of the paint. Then the postman brought me some very special paint that I’ve been coveting for a very long time – some Golden fluid acrylic paint! Well – I just had to try that out didn’t I? Isn’t it lush!

With two pages of abstract paint marks scanned I just had to play digital! So much fun and such beautiful colours!

Today I finally finished my game cards, the first part of Kelly Hoernig’s Lesson from Life Book this week.

I created my own playing card size cards using glossy white card, then painted them using acrylic paint (the old paint!). I used collages of stamped images coloured using watercolour pencils to decorate the front of the cards, and luggage tags coloured using distress ink pads to write my goals on the back. I obscured the titles of a couple of them as I am not ready to share them at the moment.

So now I’d better get back to completing the rest of Kelly’s Lesson! I hope to be able to post it in the next day or so.

Blended Mandalas

I just had to play with Wednesday’s Mandala! Do you like my animation?

If you missed it, click your browser refresh button to see the animation repeat. Not brilliant – but not bad for a first attempt!

I started off by inverting the original, then added colour changes and blends to the mixture.