40 portraits challenge

This week I'm going to share some sketches I've been working on in the past week. I participate in a challenge on Facebook initiated by Gritti Jane from "The Trodden Path", to do 40 portraits. There is no time limit, so everyone works at their own pace. Here are the first eight portraits I posted:

A mixed media painting I have posted before, inspired by Lucas Cranach the elder:

The beauty queen contestant, drawn in charcoal on A2 sized water color paper x 3:

Four charcoal drawings on smooth A3 sized paper. It is very interesting how these turn out and it almost feels like sculpting when I do them, because I have three items in my hand at the same time as I try to build up the features (charcoal-pencil, rubber, and paper wiper):

This challenge suits me very well, as I really want to improve my drawing skills, especially getting a likeness  to the model/photo.

Thank you for visiting and have a wonderful weekend!

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Feathers for Yanik

It is wonderful to be inspired! I really love to react on inspiration instantly, because of the energy the inspiration evokes and so I did thursday evening. I had seen a video of a woman presenting  two feathers she had received from a Facebook friend of mine. I was so inspired by the beauty of the woman and her loving attitude so I tried to find out what these feathers were about. I went to her blog, where she tells all about a project she is working on. You can read about it here.

I read her instructions for the feather-project and found material I would like to use. And here are the feathers:

Yanik asks us to use a cereal box or something as a base and then add whatever we like to decorate, just make it colourful and with love. I chose some fabric in my favorite colour and added some golden and pinkish red acrylics and ink. I started out drawing four feathers onto the back of the cardboard and glued the fabric onto it. I realized that I could make at least two more feathers from the cardboard and so I did :-) 

This is the fabric I used:

And the first feather I made (and kept as a keepsake):

Sending them off today!!??? I have to get them posted nooooow! Lol

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Paint Party Friday Week 36 Year 3

I've been fairly busy training my drawing skills and painting and playing around. But before I show you, what I have done I would like to ask you something. Do you prefer to get an answer to your comment directly on the post you commented on? Or do you prefer to be visited by the other blog-owner on your blog as to get more visits on your blog?
Now to the fun part of my post

Some sketches
The first one is done on a small piece of paper (x inch square)

The second is done in my faces sketchbook and it is the beauty queen from last week, only this time I sketched with an H (Faber-Castell) pencil.

I've done some more drawings of a real princess (Marie, the second wife of the second son of the Queen Margrete of Denmark). There is no special likeness to the photo I used for reference!

Finally I would like to show you a canvas I've been working on this week in acrylic:

The background I prepared:

Painting in the figure of a woman:

And finally the face. I'm not quite sure, if it is finished:

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Beauty Queen

Hi you all! Thank you for your visits and for your comments. They mean so much to me, as this is the way I share my art. I'm not a professional artist and I don't sell my art … yet. So feedback from other creative people/artists help me get through times of doubt.

Today I share two pieces with you. They are inspired by a young woman I know, who is participating in a world wide beauty contest.
The first piece is a pencil sketch in my square portrait sketchbook. I sketched after a photograph with her natural look:

The second piece is a mixed media painting, sketching her face with charcoal, using a glue stick to smudge it out some and redrawing with a graphite stick and charcoal. I collaged the "dress" and painted the gold and white acrylic mix to the background and finished it all off with some doodles.

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Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

A special wish for well being and healing to all of you who are suffering illness, small or big!

Mix it Monthly November

A new theme is up for the Mix it Monthly Challenge. This month it is: Children and Graphics combined with these colours:

I already did a few pieces with the colours. The first is a business card printed with a linol-print in the blueish colour. I added the pink to the background and black acrylic for the details of the face. The original print is barely visible!

The next piece is painted and collaged on an A4 sized piece of cardboard.

There are scraps of newspapers and paper with different prints and two small children climbing a ladder. 

 I added a face:

 and gave the whole thing some extra colour with a mono print technique.

The third piece I did is a small piece of green paper painted partly black, to which I added some bits of ribbon. Then I used a pink piece of candy wrapper, added some white acrylic and sketched a face onto it with black acrylic and a fine brush. Finally I printed on top of it all with a glass plate added color and scratched some lines into the paint:

Happy Birthday

Today I only have a short post, as there's a busy weekend ahead.

The second of November is my birthday :-) and also the birthday of my daughter's friend. She is having a party tomorrow - theme? Halloween of course! :D So I painted a little scenery with the Halloween theme as my present for her:

Wish everyone at Paint Party Friday a wonderful weekend!