Visiting the Paint Party Friday :-)

I guess I found out why it's become so difficult for me to post regularly on my blog. It has stopped since I've finished my studies. While I studied I was at my computer almost all the time and now I've so many other things to do that I have to make time for blogging. If I want to keep at it, I will have to really schedule blogging-time in future. I'll have to get myself pulled together :-)

Now I want to show you a few projects I've been working on last week:

The first piece I want to show you is my contribution to the traveling journal of Lizzy Love. There are a lot of process-photos and some detail-photos. I very much hope Lizzy will like her!

Next is a sketch of a Mufflon on 300g water colour paper. I used pencils and pastels, a brush and water (The reference photo was provided by Karina Sturm)

Finally I'm working on Frida Kahlo portraits, which I enjoy very much. I am going to do a collaboration with postcard sized Frida-art. I blogged about that a few weeks ago here.

This week I did this painting:

Sketching in graphite:

Adding, acrylic, pastels and a bit of structure-paste:

Adding more structure-paste:

…and dry pastel:

…and some glue:

More dry pastel:

This where I've ended up for now…:

I hope you annoyed your visit! I certainly enjoy sharing my art with people at:

Paint Party Friday

and

Paper Saturdays 

Have an awesome weekend you all! 

Paint Party Friday Week 43 Year 3

Welcome to a new year!

At our family gathering at our house on the 28th of December I had a little drawing session with my elder sister. Can you guess who did which side? ;-)

In the third picture we worked all over the place! We enjoyed it a lot and had fun with drawing! My niece in the  green framed picture was astounded at what we were able to achieve in a quite short period of time.

 

Below I drew a scene from a holiday we were on, when my second son was still very small.

It was a lovely place!!!

At last I show you a few portraits I have done/finished this week:

     

Thank you all for visiting! Hope you will visit the PAINT PARTY FRIDAY

where a lot of amazing artists come together and share their joy with art!

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A pencil drawing:

This is beginning to draw me in ;-)

Have a wonderful day!

drawing training and painting something new

My art teacher told us that you never forget what you have learned in drawing, you can only get better. My Facebook artist friend Lizzy Love has shared a link to a you tube video with a series of drawing lessons. Focus is on learning to omit the schemes we have of conceptions of the world and to draw what we see. Here is one of the drawings I have worked on (WIP)

The other WIP I share with you today is a painting containing various objects and faces that have come to my mind through visual impressions from my surroundings or coming "out of the painting".

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Here is now a profile sketch of my husband :-) it's a sketch obviously not finished.

A model needs to be very dedicated to sit still, and in my family they don't ;-)

Three days to go and I'm off today, studying. Hope to visit some of you all

at: Ayala Art 29 faces challenge blog tonight!

Paint Party Friday

Something new today:

I've found a skirt, which was only half finished, from somebody who participated in a sewing session with me once. It is a white cotton skirt without any pattern in the weave or anything.

So I took it downstairs with me and started smudging it with some leftover paint.

Then I took a linol cut of a woman done some time ago and covered her with pastel and sprayed it with my hairspray.

I printed one side of the skirt with the linol. I used two different purple/violets. This worked all right, as the skirt already is all smudgy. I think it doesn't have to be perfect prints, but they are clearly visible.

On the other side of the skirt I drew a face of a young girl all smiling, I'm glad she will not see it, but for this purpose it is ok.

And a cat's face, Frankie! 

Some more photos, but there is still room for more drawings :-)

I have found some figures and faces in the blots of acrylics, maybe you can find a few of them?

You can enlarge the photos, by right click on your mouse and open it in a new window.

I will add some doodling before I call it finished, so off to work!
Have done some! :-)

And you! Take a look at PPF artists all around the world

I am also participating in the 29 faces-challenge. If you would like to see some of the faces I have done so far you can find them under the tag: 29 faces in the sidebar

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Here come some sketches, four in my sketchbook using pencil, charcoal, pastels and stuff and one on cardboard sized 70 x 100 cm. The last sketch is worked in acrylic.

It was actually really difficult for me to get her right, I didn't get her right!!! But I should learn from the process. And the acrylic sketch is a good starting point for a portrait, I think.

I hope to finish it, maybe during this month, maybe later.

It seems the flue finally got me too, I feel a bit weak. Making art is something doable anyway.

here is the link: 29 faces

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This is what I can do for today. I used: a sanguine for the outlines of the portrait and colour-pencils and a 2B pencil to give it colour. Done on acrylic background in my sketchbook.

and here are many more fantastic faces to adore! Thank you for this fantastic idea!
29 faces