More Faces

I am concentrating on the Let's Face It classes at the moment and not doing much with the art journal challenges - because, lack of inspiration and time.

Finding inspiration still presents the biggest problem when completing these set challenges - and then of course, when inspiration does strike it is another matter entirely to get it down on the page exactly as you see it in your head.

I've done two Journal 52 challenges and neither has turned out quite how I was hoping.

Journal 52 Week 2 - Hope

I did this in my small Dylusions journal, emulating day 4 of Effy Wild's pages for the #MiniMoleyDaily challenge that she is also running. Effy's is much shinier & brighter - her greenish paint was much more translucent so the gold stencilling showed up. I may have another go at this for a different challenge.

Journal 52 Week 3 - Strange

I started with napkin remnants covered over with paint in various shades and then dry-brushed with silver. I stamped the words and felt it needed something - so I drew a face. She has hearts on her cheeks and multi-coloured hair. The hair overpowered the letter stamps so I had to go over them with my black Uniball. Not quite the effect I was looking for!

Let's Face It Week 2 revisited.

As I mentioned last time, I decided to try my profile portrait from week one again. So I did both a grid portrait and a burnished portrait. Surprisingly, the grid portrait still looks longer in the face than the original photo - how does that happen?

The burnished version below is better - as it should be!

Let's Face It Week 3 - Values

Well we've finished the review portion and re now getting stuck into painting portraits this week with our first lesson on grey scale values. Again, I've made the face longer than in the reference photo - that is obviously something I'm going to have to work on!

I didn't have a board or a Stabilo All Pencil, so used a heavy duty paper and water soluble pastel. Using gesso to get the different shades of grey was interesting - it worked really well if you got just the right amount of gesso on your brush. An exercise in control for me who tends to overload her brush!

Something else I will have to try again when I have the right materials - but the Stabilo pencil is proving elusive.

Thanks for looking and reading - look after yourselves til next time. Cheers.