Tuesday 10 September 2013

29 Faces

Regular visitors will know that I've had a fascination with drawing faces ever since I attended Dina Wakley's fabulous workshop at Art from the Heart earlier this year.  I think I must be addicted ...!!  Well, as you know practice makes perfect so I'm so pleased to have found this great challenge, running throughout September (so I'm a bit behind already) but looking forward to pushing myself to sketch a face every day for the rest of the month!  I don't want to bombard you with daily posts so I think I may group them together every couple of days ... wish me luck!!

Just a couple to get you started ...

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

These have all been created using Dylusions Inks with stamps and stencils as a background - I had lots of prepared pages as I put together a holiday book to take away with me and didn't finish them all!  I can then add a sketched face using the Stabilo All pencil in different colours.  This pencil is AWESOME!  It works a bit like a watercolour pencil but so much better ... be warned though because you need a very light touch with the water otherwise it can become a big grungy mess!!!!

Thanks for visiting and I look forward to sharing more faces with you soon ...

Liz x

19 comments:

  1. These are beautiful. I really like the colors and textures in the background.

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    1. Thank you so much. I started using inks a little while ago and am completely hooked! The colours are so vibrant. Thanks for your visit Lx

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  2. These are wonderful. And I'll need to check out the Stabilo All pencils (like I need more art supplies!). Keep creating!

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    1. Dina Wakley introduced them to me and they are such fun to work with. Anyway, you can never have enough art supplies ... :) Thanks for your visit Lx

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  3. Love the overlay of color onto the black and white!

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  4. Love the overlay of color onto the black and white!

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  5. I also use the Stabilo a lot. Nice portraits!
    Xheers
    Gabriele 78

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    1. Thanks so much. The pencils are great aren't they? Lx

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  6. Very pretty! I like your use of bold color! :)

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  7. Very pretty faces, and I like the way you have used colour and texture.

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