29 Faces #8

This is an image transfer of the drawing I did for the last post. My plan was that once I got it into my fabric journal, I was going to paint it completely differently than I did the original. But once I got it transferred, I liked it so much the way it was, the aged softness of it, that I just couldn't get myself to paint it.  So I did some collage and soft color around it to bring out the cracked plaster.

 

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29 Faces #7

I made it through a week of a face a day - yeah!  This one is a sketch, that I then colored with pan pastels.  I think I like the sketch better before I colored it, as I tend to, but as I said when I started this, that's my comfort zone and I need to push myself.

 

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29 Faces #6

This drawing is an exercise from an online class I'm taking from Kate Thompson at the The Trodden Path, where you draw the actual planes of the face.  It's done in my fabric journal (also a Kate Thompson class), on a page that's covered in plaster and distressed.

 

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And here it is painted with watercolor, gesso and alcohol inks. Really fun and a nice, much more loose and abstract change of pace from my last painted face.

 

 

29 Faces #5

This is yesterday's drawing, painted.  I definitely need to work on being more relaxed with my painting, but then trying to paint over such a detailed drawing probably didn't help.

 

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29 Faces #4

This face has been something I've worked on sporadically, I'd come back to it and try to fine tune some area or other, but tonight I worked on it til I decided it was done.  I'm guessing some of you will be able to relate to this - I've spent hours staring directly at her, and not til I was looking at a scanned copy on the computer that I realized that her eyes are just off - looking in different directions, one a little bigger than the other, one open more - it made me laugh.  And it's okay, perfection is boring, and I'm going to paint her anyway, so I'll have a chance to make changes then.

 

 

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29 Faces - #2 & #3

Squeezing some time in, post Superbowl and pre Downton Abbey.  I did this drawing based on a picture of an actual art doll that I was intrigued by, I thought her face was so interesting.

 

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I then re-drew her in my fabric art book, which I just got bound yesterday. I used paint, inks, graphite and charcoal. Her face turned out very differently, but I'm okay with it.  I'm going to rework areas, everything below her collar was done very quickly, but at a pace of a face a day, I figure that will have to be later!

 

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I hear Downton Abbey calling!!

29 Faces

After looking from the sidelines at the previous 29 Faces challenges, I've decided to commit to participating in 29 Faces this time around. I've never participated in a daily type of challenge before, but I'm hoping it's okay if I don't post every day, as long as I do post 29 faces.  I'm really wanting to focus on faces right now, so the timing is perfect and I can always use a good motivational push.

I need to get out of my comfort zone, which is definitely drawing faces in pencil.  I like the control and the detail and subtle shading I can get with pencil, but I struggle when it comes to painting them, giving up that control and trying to create subtlety and depth with paint.

This first one is a pencil sketch (of course), but I'll definitely be stretching myself throughout the month!  Thank you Martha for hosting this wonderful event!

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