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Nearly at the end of the 29 face challenge and today something different. 

I had some handmade leaf paper which I bought and then hadn't got round to using.

 I used it as a base for my collaged painting and then digitally put a filter over it to make it look  like old parchment.

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This is a project I stared in the summer, but as many things I didn't finish it so it has remained half done until now. I decides to get a move on so I could complete it as one of my 29 faces.

I found in a charity shop this little wooden heart, it was just plain with a pale blue outer rim. I collaged some napkin daisies onto the rim. I think they look like little pressed daisies. ( I used to love pressing flowers when I was young )

I thought It needed a sweet innocent face. so here is Daisy. This was as far as I got in the summer.
So after a bit of acrylic paint she is finally done!

I added some sparkly jewel centres to the daisies.

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And WOYWW

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I got my bit of inspiration  for todays face from a friend of mine who is also doing the 29 face challenge. Swirlygirl painted a lovely Matisse lady last week and as I love Matisse I thought I would have a go.
As you can see I gave her a new hairstyle! Although I love Matisse his strong dark lines are not something I normally use, during the challenge I am trying to vary my usual approaches to representing faces and perhaps learn something new along the way!
For the mirror I added a bit of collaged kitchen foil. The original piece is called the Inattentive reader, which I think is a fabulous title for a painting, I wonder what's on her mind?


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The original by Matisse 'the Inattentive Reader'

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Today something different, a piece inspired by photograph I found of a beautiful Peruvian mask. I love the combination of bright turquoise and red. i found some textured paper and painted direct onto it and then I then wiped the surface and so some of the pattern showed through.

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A page from my sketchbook, I am working on a large canvas at the moment of a stag and I have been drawing stags recently to help me with the finished canvas. I love the combination of gold and deep red and decided this would work well on a bigger scale.

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There is music in the air.
A page from my sketchbook, collaged sheet music, gesso and stencilled paint.

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graphite, watercolour on paper

Today, two faces ( I am having a break tomorrow )
It is a year now since I wisited Florence and I was looking back at some of my photographs. This painting is inspired by a beautiful fountain in the Boboli gardens of the Pitti palace. I am not sure who the figures made of marble are, the gardens were filled with so many beautiful sculptures I didn't note down all the information, but they look rather sad and wistful.

The original sculpture

I sketched in pencil first and then added a watercolour wash.

detail

I used to paint in watercolour often, I had forgotten how much I love it!

For those who missed my faces this week here is a brief catch up

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