29 faces best bits

After a month of February faces I thought I would put my favourites together in a little collage.

These are just some my favourites, I tried this time to mix up my mediums and materials. Thank you to Ayala for setting up the fabulous 29 faces challenge. The next round is due in September :)

29 faces day 28

 

Last day of the challenge, and a special face.

I have just finished my newest canvas and thought you might like a little peep at how it was made.

Started off collaging newsprint, bookpapers, found and handmade papers and gesso. This is quite a large canvas as you can see, I like this long format and use it quite often

Splattered acrylics over the top of the collaged paper and built up layers of modelling paste.

The little thistles are machine embroidered silk which I made on my sewing machine a couple of weeks ago.

There is also gold leaf and gold embossing powder, as you know I love my metallics ;)

The sky texture was built up with Gesso and then the raindrop effect was created with cosmic shimmer spray ink.

A huGe thank you to all who have left such fabulous comments and followed me along the challenge.

xxx

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and paint party friday

29 faces 27

 

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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29 faces 26

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

29 faces 25

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'

29 faces 24

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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29 faces 23

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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