Weekend Sketching

Working on a new face while riding in the car this weekend.

Magic Mirror

Hmmm...I wonder if I have a magic mirror on my wall?
This is what I see when I look in it.

Oh, silly me!

That was a magazine that I was looking at.

Have you drawn anything today?

Sunday Art Work

Here is a peek at a painting that I've been working on.
I am not pleased with it (she won't let go of her mascara...)
but she is going in a good direction.

I'm really trying to get things lined up to begin offering transfers of some of the faces that I draw.
I thought that maybe some people would like to have a face to paint themselves...without having to draw one.
Can't draw but like to paint, or want to learn to paint?
Then this would be the thing for you!

Reworked Face Drawing

Back on March 8, I posted a picture of a beautiful face that I had drawn. I later needed to redraw the face for something and this is the result. I think that she is even more beautiful now.
The faces do look similar but could actually be two different people...sisters maybe.
And believe you me, it is NOT a self portrait! I've got these big, bold white streaks running through my hair. A lot of people ask me who "did" my hair and the answer is always the same...
the good Lord and Dr. West.
The story is that I became very ill one time many years ago. I was on a lot of medication and under a tremendous amount of stress. I lost probably about 33% of the hair on my head. The doctors told me that IF it grew back it would probably be white. I personally didn't care what color it was, I just wanted it to grow back...
It did and it was (grew back & turned white).
Anyway, a little straying from the main story there...anyone that knows that me knows that I tend to do that. I can start with one story and by the time I'm through, I've gone so far from where I started that I don't even remember what I was talking about. Does anyone else do that?

OK, today I am painting. Not an easy thing to do. For me anyway. I am taking Paulette Insall online class (wonderful!) and am back at the studio table.
Canvas in hand...
paintbrushes laid out...
paint colors mixed...
water mister full...
music playing...
and where am I? Yep, avoiding the job at hand. I can paint other things...just not people! It's difficult!
Hard.
To.
Do.
But, ya know what? I will do it.
I will paint beautiful people.
I will no longer run from the fear of painting faces, hands, bodies...
I will embrace it the same way I do when I create fiber art - fully, without fright or excuses.
I will learn how to do this and I will do it well.
I drew the woman. Now I will paint her into existence...

5 second face sketch

Here is a 5 second face sketch with the skin tone Pitt Pens..kinda funky. If you hold it farther away from you (which obviously you (dear reader) can't) it looks even more like a face. I looked at the sketch on the front of the Pitt pen skin tone marker set pack (say that fast, oh 2 or 3 times...). Their pic is much better but not too bad for the first time, and in 5 seconds.
I would be willing to bet that my son could do much better than either one...too bad he is not here at the moment or I'd try to bribe him, I mean talk him in to trying.