I might be crazy, but I’m joining the 29 Faces challenge at Ayala Art. Can I draw a face everyday in February? We’ll see. Little ones count. Any style counts. Even unfinished ones count. I’ll be away from home a good bit but I’ll still try to get something small and simple done on those days, even if it is a doodle face. They just may not all get posted on the day they were drawn. Why don’t you join me? It will be good practice!
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Imagine if
This journal spread is the result of a couple of different challenges. My Art Journal Challenges group is challenging us to use wings on something that doesn’t normally have them, and it can’t be a person. At A Year in the Life of an Art Journal, the word prompt is Imagine, the stuff prompt is words or images from magazines, newspaper, ect., and the technique prompt is masks/stencils. This is what my imagination came up with. I love the idea of traveling and seeing new places but at night I just want to be in my own bed in my own house.
Wanna see something scary?
This is a work in progress that is still in the terrifyingly ugly stage. I hate stopping at this stage because it’s hard to want to pick it back up again to finish but I ran out of time tonight. She isn’t meant to be bald, I just haven’t decided what I want to do with her hair yet. and hopefully she won’t look so much like a zombie when I’m done with her. This is a cropped version because the whole thing won’t fit on my scanner and it’s too dark here for a photograph. Mixed media but at this point it’s just watercolor crayon and gesso. Maybe she’ll be looking a bit spiffier by next week’s Paint Party Friday.
A day without internet
Finally, the internet is back up! Yay! It was down when I got up at 7:00 this morning. My phone was out, too. And my son had my cell phone so I couldn’t even report the outage. And he had my car, too! I worked in my journal and carved a Strive stamp while the rain went drizzle, drizzle, drizzle.
A note to my Blogger friends: For the past 2 weeks, I’ve had a hard time commenting on a lot of the blogspot.com blogs. The page just reloads but nothing happens. The ones where I can post with my Name and URL seem to work (why don’t all of you allow this? It makes it so much easier for non-blogger users to comment!) but if I have to use my Open ID, it’s hit or miss. I even signed up with a different Open ID provider, thinking the one I was using was to blame, but no luck. Plus, the Open ID works on all non-blogger blogs just fine. Anyway, just wanted you to know that there’s some kind of problem there and I am not ignoring all of you, LOL.
Remember who you are
I’ve been using my word of the year – strive. I wanted to sketch something before bed but the house was dark and I couldn’t think of anything interesting to sketch. I thought maybe a quick self portrait to practice faces. For me, if I’m trying to get a likeness, portraits are not quick and easy. But I remembered my word. I grabbed 2 colored pencils so I couldn’t erase and knitpick like I usually do and just went for it. I didn’t have a mirror so I used the front facing camera on my 7″ tablet and drew straight from the screen. The likeness isn’t perfect but it’s much better than I expected for a quick one-go sketch. I was proud of myself for making that effort and not finding something easier so into my journal it went. I saw the quote on Design Dreams by Anne and knew I wanted a copy of it in my journal so I would remember it. I’m entering this spread as my submission for the Artists in Blogland soul challenge.
This spread was fun to do because it started with a page from a catalog. It was a pile of cardigans. If you look closely, you can still see the buttons and text. I just liked the curvy lines so I pasted it in and colored over it with inktense pencils. I thought it looked like a strange landscape so I painted in a few clouds and waves and a little person standing on an outcrop.
Random things
Just a few random things drawn with colored pencil on brown paper, for Sunday Sketches in the morning. 🙂