Roman Angel

My Mom and I went to Italy together about 10 years ago, and we loved Rome.  I've had in the back of my mind for a while to make something for her inspired by this piece of Kate Thompson's ever since I saw it.  So for her birthday this year I finally did it (one advantage of her currently not having Internet is I can post this even though I haven't given it to her yet!).  

It occurred to me to take progressive pictures of it, I love when other people do and I've never thought of it in time to do it before.  These aren't at specific stopping points so much as just when I remembered.  It's plaster on cradled wood, and turned out to be more of a project than I anticipated, mostly because I kept changing my mind about what I wanted to do.

WHEW!

Hummingbird

I've been playing in my fabric art journal this week, with a few pages kinda started, but lots of ideas.  I do have one completed spread, reflecting what I suspect is going to be a brief hummingbird phase, inspired by a picture on the back of one of my company's quarterly "what's going on at all the locations" type of magazines. The last place I'd have expected to find inspiration...

 

 

 

 

 

It was a lot of fun...

29 Faces #27-#29 - The End!

I have mixed feelings about 29 Faces being over - it's been such a great experience, I've learned a lot and found some wonderful blogs.  And it's been a good discipline habit for me too, we'll see how well I keep it up.  It'll be a relief too, for my husband as well who's feeling a little like a 29 faces widow!

 

#27

 

This one is my second attempt at painting with oils - I posted this drawing earlier in the week and it was done on a canvas board instead of paper, which made it a completely different experience because the paint stayed wet. I really enjoyed it, although I had pictured something with lots of distinct brush strokes, a little more abstract, but I found myself blending away.  I'm not sure I'm capable of not blending...

 

 

 

#28 & #29

 

The painting above took me two nights so I'm just out of time for my last two.  This is a drawing from one of my favorite photos that I did last year, of me holding my nephew Jake about 10 years ago. It seemed like a good way to end things.

 

THANK YOU Ayala Art, for hosting this wonderful event!

 

 

29 Faces #26

This face is done on a piece of a page from my beloved 1917 prescription book.  The paper is so thick and wonderful, and I love the text, all the different handwriting from the different doctors. This is going into my fabric art journal.  I drew it, and then colored it with primarily Tim Holtz distress stain.  This was just plain fun, because I was just totally relaxed about it.

 

#26

29 Faces #25

This is done in my fabric art journal, a project from a class I took from Kate Thompson at The Trodden Path.  I didn't feel like doing a full-on face like the ones I worked on over the weekend, but even though her face is tiny I spent so much time on it that I think it counts!  I was going for a look of total peace, hopefully I achieved something close.

 

#25

 

 

 

29 Faces #22 thru #24

This weekend I've been playing with painting techniques, experimenting, on previous drawings. This is definitely an area I need to work on, painting.

 

#22

 

The two sides done differently - made a bit of a mess.

 

#23

 

This is actually oil paint, I bought a cheap starter set to play.  But I did it on paper, and like an idiot didn't buy anything to clean my brush with when I needed to change color - it was frustrating and doesn't even look like oil, but was a good learning experiment.  Being patient while I try to learn new things is something I struggle with!

 

 

 

#24

 

I drew this to experiment with painting it later in the week

29 Faces #21

I decided I needed a night off from my art desk, so tonight was a sketch in front of the TV night (caught up on the most recent episode of "Justified" - so good!).  I enjoy doing this, watching TV and sketching at the same time - whenever I look back down I see something new to work on, or an area that's off that I didn't notice before, and it keeps me pretty relaxed about it. Although I did plan for her to be much looser and more sketchy, not sure what happened, I guess since it didn't have my full focus I just did what came naturally.  

 

#21