Love of Faces and Art Journaling

Its Frosty!

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Blackberry vines

Larissa lounging languidly 

Conte crayon on a gelli print background

Mr Vinnie

A work in progress

If you look at the post below you will see this canvas before the face was added.

I've been framed!

Learning the subtle changes that go into facial expressions in Jane Davenports online art workshop called Express yourself. Jane is a fabulous teacher and a wiz at producing videos. I am learning valuable tools for drawing faces and I love it! This is my homework from one of the lessons.

Face it

What I am working on today. The green page inspired the pose for the face in my huge journal 12 x 18".  The skinny one is 6 x 15" and the background was done with a Gelli plate in acrylics, the face is on muslin adhered to the page with matte medium and the hair (not yet painted) done with fibre paste.

Gaga for faces

 a series of the same face in 3 different journals

Pencil, collage, Gouache, Pentel brush pen, punch

8 1/2 x 11" Strathmore journal with grey paper

Carved rose stamp with bordeaux Gouache

Pencil, white gel pen and charcoal, blending stump

 Background done in acrylics. 

Outlined face with white gel pen and then painted out the negative space with Paynes Grey Gouache then it was a mix of Gouache and Pentel brush pen.

Its really interesting doing different takes on the same image, you always learn alot.

Fun in the Sun and more Art Journaling

"Smiling eye"

I seem to have an endless fascination for faces. This is in my 8 1/2 x 11" Strathmore journal that has grey pages. Started in pencil and then Gouache, and Pan Pastels. 

Vinnie is a constant source of amusement and is a huge love bug.

What would summer be without some cloud watching on your back from the front lawn?

 Love this grey paper

I have been playing with Gouache a lot lately

A WIP I was thinking of a tattooed whale . . . maybe?

Also a work in progress, this is a new journal. It is just a simple pamphlet stitched book. The checkers is duck tape, black gesso over masking tape and blue Gouache with gel pen outline, fun! 

More portrait practice

"sweet contentment"

Faces on toned paper

More portrait practice, this time in pencil and white charcoal. Working in pencil on toned paper is great as the paper is the mid tone and you can add your darks and highlights too.

I am using a 4b pencil and a white charcoal pencil and a little white gel pen here and there.

Painterly

Pallet knives and acrylic paints

Picasso bits edited in Photoshop

Alter Ego Patti Poop

Ingrediants:

J.Herbin Marron Brown ink

Portfolio Oil Pastels

Canal Paper Montreal

Musical Inspiration

I was and am always inspired by music. I love all kinds and one style I have been enjoying a lot lately is Gypsy Jazz like one of the originals Django Reinhart. I came across this video of Caravan Palace and it is just so fun and really gets your toes tapping. I love to listen to music while I create art and this cool tune inspired this art.

Ingredients:

Walnut ink (always!)

Fluid and heavy body acrylics

pencil and pen

Text paper

gel pen

tissue paper

Inspired

I have been enjoying Milliande's videos of her Seed Journals. Her day 7 inspired this face. I did a face in wet on wet watercolours and walnut ink after adding text with matte medium. I sprayed it too to make the colours blend as they would on their own with no help from me. Then I ripped the face in half and painted a new half responding to side one. Once it dried I went over it with a fine black pen, then I added a bit of highlights with a white oil pastel. Fun! Part of what inspired me was her spontaneity and part was her colour palette.

I am using the Strathmores new Mixed Media Pads, the 400 series. I really like the paper and it is really sturdy and takes a lot of wet media and collage and it is very reasonable. I am a happy customer. :)

Coming up Roses was inspired by Traci Bautista's free workshop through Strathmore. I say inspired because I got so excited that I kept going off on tangents from Traci's instructions. :) The fine lines in her hair are acrylic paint laid down with a pizza cutter. I also finished it off with the Portfolio oil pastels. The are so creamy and smooth.

"Coming up Roses"

"Tumbler" is inspired by the above and Traci's Lesson 4. Tumbler also has pizza cutter hair. In the background are stamps and letter stencils. He is also acrlyics finished with oil pastels. I love how saturated the colours are.

Inspired by Carla Sonheim's Picasso Dogs. Tons of fun.

The dog page is a work in progress there will be more added to the page when I'm done.

Happy arting!

Mr Big

"Mr Big"

Walnut ink and Gold leaf on watercolour paper 20 x 9 inches

Seeing and Listening

"Walter"

Started with Pitt pens and then painted with Super Tooth Gesso, acrylics, gel pens and walnut ink. I love to finish with Walnut Ink!

These are the latest pages in my big Hand Book. It has a linen cover and watercolour paper. I like these very much.

Water colours

"mad"

Pentel Color Brush and blended with a wet brush

"Red's Portrait"

Pastels, watercolour crayons, acrylics, inkjet printout and walnut ink.

"Curves"

Fiber paste through oval stencil, hand made Goddess stencil, acrylic paint and Walnut Ink. :)

"Listening"

Glowing Edges filter in Photoshop

"Buds"

"Siskel and Ebert"

"Floating"