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.

More Digital Fun

Ok, I am quite liking this one. I used a photo of my hubby's for her hair, which I did the poster edges filter. Its a Grape Hyacinth a native wild flower to our area. I did the sketch of the face and it is on a background of an evening sky shot from my yard. Ms Hyacinth is pretty funky, no?

Thank you all for your comments it is so nice to hear from you.
Cheers!

Not sure about this one

I am to tired to judge, is it a keeper?

Going Digital

Meet Princess Peony. I got inspired after glancing through the new issue of Digital Studio by Stampington. I use Photoshop and am quite enchanted with it. I pulled a watercolour portrait I did and layered it in my photos of my beautiful peony. I used Spanish Wave marble paper from my Friend Jeanne Germani to colour her eyes. This was fun I will definitely be doing it again. :)

Portraits in pastels

adding a ruby's portrait to my journal. I had a band of ochre honeycombs to start. I don't know Ruby but she is inspired by the beautiful portrait Anne Bagby did in the "True Colors" book by Stampington. She was working in Keely Barham's black journal. It is still one of my favorite books. Not sure where my journal spread will go from here. A quote maybe. Did I tell you I love my journals lately? I couldn't live with out them now. :) I find they are becoming more an expression of me the more I work in them.