some more faces

Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing some progress works. I didn't have time to finish any of the pieces I'm working on at the moment. First comes a drawing of an owl from a photo I've found on the PMP site. The Barn owl was photographed by Mike Gullick. I'm grateful for all the wonderful photos that great photographers share for artists to draw and paint!

The owl, sketched on a small moleskin journal.

The next few pieces are done on lose paper, all Bronzino portraits with additions

(One of the old Italian masters):

1. is a lady with sheep and birds photographed by Valerie Jael. She takes a lot of beautiful photos on her walks and I got permission to use some as reference for my drawings. Thank you once more Valerie! :-)

2. a Young Man, and I gave him a set of cow-horns.

Finally I'm showing a few photos of a portrait I'm working on. She seems to grow on me, the longer I work on her :-):

3. is Lucrezia di Cosimo with flowers added.

I really enjoy drawing and I would love to do something really big, a few square yards/meters!

Wishing everyone a wonderful sunday, don't get blown away by the storm! (For those affected by the weather)

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Paint Party Friday

It's Friday already!!! Oh my, I need to hurry, because there's so much to do.... :-)

I have made a few portraits and I have drawn snails this week, as my daughter loves them. I took a few photos and one of them I have edited a little and drawn the photo afterwards.
Just presenting the results of this weeks art-work and then hurry on to my writing task again! Have wonderful weekend all of you and enjoy art at PAINT PARTY FRIDAY!

Thank you for visiting! :-)

Ilona

Kreativsession

In an earlier post I told you about a birthday present I gave to my sister and my niece. A Creative session/afternoon.

So yesterday was the day for our creative session. Before we started, we had a cup of coffee and some creme brulé and a little talk about our New Years Eve- experiences.

We started out with an idea I got from Julie Fei Fan Balzer: feathers. balzerdesigns.how-to-deli-paper-feathers

It was a good way to start, to let the creative spirit arouse.

And here are the feathers we did finish:

We started with rice-paper feathers. They have a soft character and turned out to be favored material for us to work with. The second feather was in a more sturdy material (photo print-paper).

The next thing we did were tags. This is a new media for all of us and I have only worked with tags a few times before. We did some collaging and working with layers and used tape to spare parts of our layout and worked over the tape, and removed it in the end. We used net and a simple stamp of cork to create liveliness in the layout.

Two of the tags were painted on both sides:

And one of mine a mini collage is going to be integrated in a bigger collage, which I started using different material: bits of a print I did last year, some toilet paper used to remove colour during the session yesterday and some pictures from a journal about artists of the 1980'ies.

In between we did projects more freely, my niece drew and painted this lady:

And my sister made a layout for a card:

It is truly a mixed media project, using water colour, ink pen, printing with net and some foil, which gives a shiny effect.

After we had dinner together and a cosy talk on the sofa our guests left, and I thought, I would use some of the leftover acrylic colours.

I put on some music and found the owl I drew on my wacom board and started this painting.

The owl got eyes and a beak...

Which I found out was too small, so I painted over it with white acrylic, and then

I somehow made the green colour float all over the painting! I took a break from the owl-painting.

These lines and colours were the last thing for me to work with, before I went sleeping last night:

It was a great session and my sister asked me to do a drawing session next time. We'll see :-)

Owl in black and white

Inspired by a photo and wanting to use the wacom board again I made this doodle drawing of an owl.