A lovely day out with my oldest daughter today, headed off to a picturesque little town which also happened to have both a yarn shop and an art gallery. Bought yarn, enjoyed looking at the art. Had coffee in a ye olde worlde coffee shop.
So today's face has to be my oldest daughter :-)
3rd Feb - A long day with a 3:50am start, a 7 hour ferry journey and an 8 hour drive - arriving at my parent's house at just before 9pm. I am not a good sailor and just have to sit when i'm on board so finding a subject for todays face was a little tricky. Anyway I spotted a poster for a local jewelry company and had a go at drawing the model on there. I have a lot of issues with it but it will have to do for today!
4th Feb - A nice lie in then off to the local mall to get some bits and pieces. wow, so many people, so many cars! I always get culture shock when I leave the peace and quiet of my little island. My youngest daughter Kat came round this afternoon. I love her so much - always laughing, always smiling - she cheers my heart no end :-)
As always I have issues with the sketch - man, why is it so hard to get eyes and spectacles to look right! More practice needed obviously!
Found this fabulous mini article online today on the Artist and Illustrators website - a UK magazine that I buy sometimes - usually when i'm on the mainland and have access to shops! I just don't find it as satisfying to read this type of magazine on my iPad or iPhone.
Very relevant to the 29 Faces challenge that i'm participating in this month :-)
Artists and Illustrators Magazine - how to article - close up study of face
This small tutorial found on crftsy.com looks like it will come in usefull as well:-
And so on to todays face - the man i'm married to - watching football on the internet (and not swearing at this point as the connection has been rubbish all day with a complete two hour outage this afternoon. P.S. He says it is very unflattering and told me i'd drawn in too much hair to start with so I rubbed some out :-)
After finishing the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge I didn't think i'd participate in another challenge just yet but found out, via two different sources about the 29 Faces running during February. Can't guarantee i'll do all 29 but have made a brief start...
All my art supplies are packed for the trip to Spain now. Just have to get off the island on Wednesday - i'm currently sitting typing this while the wind is blowing a hoolie outside - gusting up to 71mph so far. I'm amazed I still have electric and internet! :-) The official name of this current storm is Henry - which is kind of weird as my face for today is Harry, whose official name is Henry.
"Harry"
Day 17 of this challenge by Leslie Saeta. Continuing my exploration of abstract painting from the Rolina van Vliet book. This is the third exercise in the book, variant number one.
Acrylic on A4 mixed media paper. I was reasonably happy with it, although it probably would have been better to use heavy body acrylic paint rather than the fluid acrylics - the colours I chose were fairly transparent. I'm calling this a sketch painting really as I feel I may be able to do something with this image - it gave me ideas for future work.
Today's offering is a Whooper Swan - a fair number of them spend the winter here, most spend the summer breeding further north (for example in Iceland) but a small number do also stay to breed here.
This is Inktense pencils and acrylic paint on 6" x 6" card
Wow, already one third of the way through this challenge! It's my first time participating and it's going pretty quickly.
Today, continuing my bird theme for this week is a Raven - I love these birds and see them every day, I always call them "birds of character." I especially love it in the Autumn when groups of them get together and fly around, as if they are playing and really having fun - there doesn't seem to be any other reason for it apart from fun :-)
The painting is in acrylic on 6" x 6" card. It turned out better than I thought it would, although the eye seems to be a bit wonky - I redid it at least a couple of times!
Day 8, a Swallow catching insects. Acrylic paint on 6" x 6" card. I decided to go with a different theme for each week, this week it will be birds.
The Barn Swallows here in the UK are a different sub-species to the North American ones, the ones here are much whiter on the underparts.
Birds are my big passion in life (apart from art) and it frustrates the hell out of me that I can't draw or paint them effectively! Ah well, will be getting plenty of practice this coming week with my bird-related theme.
Also worked on my Inspiration Wednesday first page of the year today as well. I didn't have the same stencils as Donna used in her tutorial so used a flower one that I already had and then for the text cut my own stencil. It's the first time i've cut a stencil - i've had the small tool and the mylar sheets for over a year but hadn't plucked up courage to use them yet! It went pretty well and I was pleased with the result and can see that this is something I will do again soon.
Sometime over the weekend I need to make a cover for my IW journal - I have my inner pages - taken from a dismantled Dylusions journal and think I'll make the cover from gelli printed watercolour paper. I then need to put it all together, like Donna's it comprises two signatures and so will be enough pages for the whole year of this every other week class. The Inspiration Journals that Donna makes have a fabric cover but I don't really have anything suitable.
So, a full week of painting every day now. This one has an acrylic under-painting overpainted with Tombow water-soluble brush pens. Worked on 6" x 6" card.
Hmmm another one that i'm not so happy with. This is some of my collection of floats/bouys that i've collected from the beach. At some time I will do a better version of this...
Acrylic paint on 6" x 6" card.
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