Monday 10 February 2014

29 faces 10


A more abstract face today, made with kitchen Aluminium foil! 
I am participating in the 29 face challenge and coming up with a new face every day means I am having lots of fun with whatever I can find lying around.


I first glued some scrunched up pieces of foil onto heavy watercolour board.


I then covered the whole page in another piece of foil and using a teaspoon pressed it down firmly. The relief of the facial features shows through the top coat of foil.. The whole piece is then covered with a coat of metallic copper acrylic paint. I wiped off areas so the foil shows through.


And then with darker acrylic added some shadow to the features. I really like the shimmery metal surface.

linking to the 29 face challenge

and inspiration avenue Show and tell week

19 comments:

  1. Lovely. Interesting technique, beautiful surface.

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  2. Such a beautiful blog! Love your style and your faces are amazing! x Thank you for stopping by my blog x

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  3. This challenge is a great opportunity to try out different things. This face looks like a lot of fun. Thank you, so much for your encouraging comments.

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  4. WOW! What a great idea! I absolutely love this abstract face! Great job!

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  5. This is another original piece of yours, you come up with great ideas, your art is full of imagination and so wonderful! I love the pinky color of this too, bravo!

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  6. Oh, this is fun! An interesting technique and a powerful result!

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  7. Quite interesting. The foil makes a great wrinkled look.

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  8. this turned out wonderful
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    very creative of you!

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  9. Your faces are fabulous, I have so much admiration for the 29 face challenge. I started my own personal challenge with slightly different rules because I love faces and I'm too busy to keep up.

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  10. love the textures..bit scary eyes

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  11. This is so clever! You are definitely the most creative mixed media artist!

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  12. How interesting! I really like the shimmer and the texture.

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  13. Do you know what I have started to save? You guessed it, aluminum foil. I usually reuse it till it can't cover anything anymore, and then I recycle it, but now, oh no, I am saving every last piece! Thanks for the instructions how to do this! I am going to show my students, I hope one of them goes for the the idea. We are going to create planet art stimulated by the music composer Gustav Holst. If anyone tries the idea, I will let you know.

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  14. A lovely face. It suits the technique so well, and the way the light shines off it is effective. I like the way you created the features with the scrunched up pieces underneath. A good one for the 29 Faces.

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  15. Oh wow, that is so clever and such a wonderful face.

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  16. That is so neat! I'm so glad you showed progress pics of the way you created this. Beautiful!

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  17. Great piece.....it looks like "Father Wind" amazing process...really strong and wonderful!

    Hugs Giggles

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  18. I love the texture and how you showed us how you created it! Beautiful!

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