29 faces - 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15

Whew!! I've been feeling a little like this Picasso-esque lady - slightly off kilter and with permanent bad hair days! Ballet and karate lessons have resumed in full swing along with our weekly Home-Ed get togethers….. as well as ongoing trips to visit various healing type folk who will hopefully fix a stuck jaw dilemma that my 17 year old daughter has. And on top of all that, she needs to be taken to and occasionally picked up from college…… and its no wonder I'm probably even looking like that horror with the blotchy skin!! 

So, of course I'm waaaayy behind with my 29 faces, sigh…… although the positive thing is that I've had to be a bit more inventive about where I draw! I now draw in the car by the seaside, on the desk in the waiting room at the Bowen therapist and scariest of all, in a cafe!!!! 

Never mind, I shall try my hardest to catch up!

In the meantime, here are a few of the latest - the last four are all really quick and the photos are rather dark but I am just wanting to document them and feel the satisfaction!!! 

Thanks so much for stopping by here and having a look at my sporadic rambling.

29 faces - 7, 8 and 9

Busy, busy here so all I've managed is a few pencil sketches. I suppose its all practice but I would have liked to have a bit more time to do some painted faces.
The faces at the top were done after watching a tutorial from Tam at willowing.org and are a lot of fun because they can look childlike and naive and not at all realistic. The two bottom ones are meant to look a little more realistic than they do but lets just pretend that I was aiming for delicate, narrow boned faery-like creatures, ok?

I am very much enjoying this 29 Faces Challenge but it does add a tad of stress to my life - I mean, I do want to do art every day but when other tasks arise it poses just a teeny quandary……how long can I leave the tasks that must be done for the one single 'task' I want to do??!!

Have a look at some of the other blogs in the challenge, there are just so many fabulous artists hiding out there!

29 faces - 4, 5 and 6

A couple of days ago, I felt and looked (in the kids eyes, at least) like this ^. 

Yesterday, I was more like this……melancholy and despondant ^. 

Today, I look like this. 

Well, okay, I wish I looked like this. 

Calm, serene and beautifully groomed. 

Joining in again with the 29 Faces Challenge. Do have a look at what others are doing. 

29 faces - 1, 2 and 3

Another new project on my list of New Things to Try! I recently stumbled upon a few blogs that mentioned a 29 Faces Challenge in February……... and fortunately I didn't have to wait too long since it was already January! But I did forget until yesterday and so I have to also tell you that I did all three of these faces in the one evening using a new technique that I also discovered in my blog hops.
No, I don't spend all my days on the internet, blog hopping and the like, but I do spend an hour each night (very late, ahem) just after I've done my own artsy stuff and just before I turn off the lights, reading my fave arty blogs and gaining inspiration and motivation. Of course, sometimes I do follow leads and links and then find all sorts of new ideas that I really must try……!!!

So, having 29 Faces in mind and having seen this method of drawing, I decided I'd give it a try using a YouTube tutorial. I used this one which was the first good one I came across and thought she did a great job of explaining the method. The blue man at the top was the first one I tried and its actually from a photo of my dad, although the only similarity are the blue of the eyes! The gorgeous rainbow woman was the second attempt and she was from a large picture of a model in a glossy magazine and I am very happy with how she turned out.

For this one on the left, I used another magazine pic which was only half a head and once again I'm happy with her. But the thin head on the right was my attempt to draw the corresponding side without having one to copy and it turned out rather lean and elongated! Oh well, I like three out of four so thats not too bad!

When I first saw this style of drawing I thought it would be quite difficult and while it does take some thinking about, and if you don't mind extra facial lines here and there, its not as hard as it looks. I really enjoyed the process and have plans to try a few more in the next few days - I'll keep you posted!!

Thanks for stopping by!