29 faces Day 18

Remember my post on day 12 of the 29 face challenge? Well this is the canvas a little further down the line.

 I have collaged in the mountains and the sea is now lovely blue with modelling paste swirls of seaspray.
I have started putting more detail on the face and will post the finished canvas at the end of the 29 day challenge.

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29 Faces Day 17

Three friends

Its day 17!! and time for some whimsy. I have been doing more arty faces recently and too be honest fancied a change and something more lighthearted!.
These three friends waiting, no idea what they are waiting for, perhaps a bus, I'll leave you to decide. Collaged onto watercolour board. I also used conte crayons and acrylic paint.

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29 faces Day 16

David ( watercolour wash on pencil )

This face seems a little sinister, it is actually a study of the statue of David by Michelangelo. The original is in Florence. I saw it for real on my trip to Italy earlier in the year. I took loads of photographs of all things Italian and use them for inspiration.
I haven't done a mans face for the challenge yet so why not start with one of the most famous! 

It is strange that concentrating on just the eyes can create a very different image.

The original David

I took this photo before being told off by officials at the gallery as signs in Italian said no photography!
I'm not such a rebel these days so put my camera away and contented myself with photographing the copy outside the Ufizzi.

The copy outside the ufitzi

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29 Faces Day 15

Conte crayon pastel on paper

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the
world through the eyes of a child....Ron Wild.

Today I thought I would concentrate on improving two things, my use of pastels and also drawing eyes.
I usually draw in a rather stylised way, and like most people who have been drawing all their lives developed my own little shortcuts to do things. I thought it would be a good discipline to sit down and concentrate on a more realistic eye.

I love pastels but usually use them wild abandon! It was a challenge to use them in a more controlled way.

I love conte crayons and find them easy to control.

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29 faces Day 14

watercolour on paper ( added a few mirrored hearts in some nice glitter glue I had in my glitter box )

Do you believe in fairies?


'Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' There's a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead'
J M Barrie

J M Barrie the master of all things fairylike must be right so 'Yes' I do...
...and while we are at it... father Christmas... the tooth fairy.... I could continue, but........ :)


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Day fourteen of the 29 faces challenge.

29 faces Day 13

Girl with the golden eyes

 Today as usual linking to the 29 face challenge as well as Paint party Friday For those arriving from paint party I am now approaching the end of two weeks of faces!! One different one a day, If you would like to take a look at what each day has brought have a scroll down. It is difficult to come up with something new each day, and for me that is the challenge. How to approach drawing faces in new and interesting ways.

Today my inspiration was one of my daughters hairstyle magazines. The models on the pages have such weird and wacky hairstyles I thought it would be fun to try and recreate one of them.

I drew then painted with acrylics onto pre collaged heavy watercolour board. Originally she had blue eyes but they didn't work too well and thought as she had such a mane of lion like hair she would suit lion like eyes.

gggggrrrowwwl ;)

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29 faces Day twelve

Day twelve brings something different, a work in progress

It is a large canvas I completed at the end of August and is now on display at the Skyeworks Gallery on the Isle of Skye.
I thought it would be fun to post a few WIP posts into the 29 faces challenge so you can watch her progress, I'll post the finished work at the end of the challenge. I started after initially drawing out the design collaging with bookpapers and then a quick wash in acrylics of the rough shapes. I will later begin to collage over these purple shapes with hand printed papers.

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