Owl-lady from a toilet-roll

I saw some amazing art today on Manon's blog post for Paper Saturday.
It made me want to try it instantly. And as you know I have a lot of time to spare I immediately searched the house for an empty roll. Of course I was lucky enough to find one and it was not difficult to find a motif for my little toilet-roll-artwork.

The Owl-lady in her original look. You will have to scroll down a little to see the collaged lady.

And here she is transformed into paper-roll art:

And a close-up:

She has a lot of rough edges and I need to improve my technique, but wonderful to do. Please check out Manon's blog and take a look at the link to the incredible artist, who inspired me to create my little Owl-lady.

Not for PPF today, just for you and me :-)

To begin with I want to thank all my visitors from last week! It was amazing to get so many comments on my blogpost! I really appreciate your comments and love to visit all your places and leave a word for you too!
Some of you have changed your set up, so I was not able to comment, as I haven't joined Google+. I may need to look at that, but not now.

Today I will not link to PPF, as I know I don't have time to visit a 100 blogs the next few days, but I will visit everyone who leaves a comment!
I have done a little something during the week, and signed up for an exquisite corpse round, which I am looking forward to very much! It will be great fun, I hope, with a special group of people, who came together, and agreed on no restrictions for our paintings/drawings ... rather exciting!

Here are a few things I have played with:

Small pieces of art for my art abandonment. I wanted to do some colorful pieces for people to be found. I also agreed with Lauri from the US to send her some pieces to abandon in the states and vice versa. I'm looking forward to that!

Here are now a few WIP for abandonment:

For one of my collaborations I want to prepare a piece of fabric with gesso, to send around the world and paint with five or six other artists. To find out if it works, I have gessoed two different kinds of fabric yesterday. Here are photos after one layer of gesso, I might need to give them another layer.

I have made a sketch of a woman's face, which I want to draw with colored pencils:

I hope I will be able to draw her, so people, who know her will recognize her! :-)

And as preparation for the exquisite corpse round I have played with linol prints. One I finished:

The other I needed to sketch onto the linol, before I forgot the idea!

Hope you enjoyed the "show" and now to the real world and the hard work. Wish me luck with my study products! Still a lot of writing to do as preparation for the exam.

Have a wonderful week-end everyone!

Hands, flowers and butterflies

I have been playing again, with collage and mixed media paintings and drawings.
Here is my flower and butterfly WIP: I collaged some gift wrapping paper on cardboard and added some acrylic washes and pastels. It looked quite cool to me and I let it wait for the right moment to add more color and stuff.

I had read somewhere about a challenge doing collage and paper art and somewhere I read about butterflies and I started playing with the background. I smeared some gesso onto the collage, and on top of that I put: dried rose petals, tulle and the cut out and drawn flower and butterflies. Then I started drawing stalks and fantasy flowers with pastels and water colours. I'm not quite sure if it is finished yet, what do you think?

Ayala Art has started a hand-drawing challenge in April. It is a bit more relaxed, as it is not a daily thing. I have started drawing after a detail of a Botticelli painting. Here are some progress shots: 

Starting with a charcoal sketch in my sketchbook on a layer of acrylic...

adding water colour...

giving the painting a wash of white acrylic...

painting out the details once more with pastels

giving it some background (I know the book's dimensions are wrong)

 and adding more water colours and pastels...

This is it for this week. Sharing on Paint Party Friday, where many other artists link to their blogs and share their wonderful work! :-) 

And with the Paper Saturdays on Manon's blog, sharing any artwork that is produced with paper in any form. See what Manon is sharing, she makes paper dolls and features a different artist on Saturdays.

I have received a comment on my blog yesterday, which did not really relate to the post it commented on. I was rather confused by it, and it was in the spam filter and I deleted it. It was not my intention to turn somebody down, who is really interested in my art and my blog, so if you are, please feel welcome!

Mail from a new friend :-)

Lauri from the "Face in the World" group has sent me a letter, as I was the winner of her Funny Bunny. It came in a beautiful envelope, maybe Lauri was inspired by my Japanese drawings and paintings lately? ;-)

And this is Funny Bunny:

Isn't he adorable? He makes me smile!!!

Thank you so much Lauri, it is a pleasure to be in touch with you through the 29 faces group and Face in the World!

Blackbird

Learnt about a song today:

Paul McCartney singing and playing Blackbird at Glastonbury

And the artist who introduced the blackbird:

Lorraine

After some illness back with some art

I have been ill since Easter and though I have been able to make some drawings and other stuff I was not really fit for blogging. But I want to show you the proceedings with my Face in the World group and a few other paintings and drawings I have been working on.

Starting with the Face in the World: I had a few ideas for this face. Should I give her hair? I really liked the idea, but was not sure if it was the right thing to do with this one...

So I tried with some tulle once in white as hat and ruff...

And a black veil, but I was not convinced, so I gave it a little more time and finally I decided

to give her a dress. As a tailor this was a fantastic option and I found some fabric matching her eyes and tulle to go with it. I stitched the edges and sewed the tulle onto the fabric with my sewing machine and added some beads and a tiny rose of tulle and fabric... now she is sent off to Audrey Breed and after her Milo Wylde Chin to make her complete! :-) A real delight to do this!

The next painting was quite untouched, meaning that apart from Beth who will receive her back in the end, nobody had worked on the painting. Beth Gould had used layers of paper collaged and there is Japanese writing included and I thought I would like to give her this Japanese touch and found a beautiful picture of a Japanese girl to paint from. I would have liked to continue working on her, as I think she is rather special, but she is also sent off to Audrey Breed in Tennessee! 

I now want to show you a few portraits and drawings I have worked on. 

There is this WIP, the little girl from Constantin Hansen, a Danish artist from the mid 1800.

And this painting/drawing in acrylic and pastels, both soft and oils

and an old man with wild hair, though it was even wilder in the photo!

Finally I have a drawing of a poppy-seed head:

Please visit the amazing artists at Paint Party Friday