Faces 25-29 (and more!)

 

Wow!  It has been a face-full week!

Thanks to Carla Sonheim's Faces 101, I completed the 29 faces challenge 
(and then some!).

I have played with all sorts of materials...

Some familiar, some not...

It has been so much fun!

I really can't say enough about Carla and her teaching style...

Techniques that I learned in college 
(that could sometimes be pretty dull and monotonous) 
have been given a fresh and funky twist at "Silly U".

(You can learn more about Carla's Silly U here.)

Faces 16 - 24

Last week, I took a break from the faces to spend some time with Tyler...

This week, I'm catching up with the help of Carla Sonheim's Faces 101 online course.

These are 8 of the faces I painted today. 

(Including warm-ups, I've created 16 faces so far.) 

If I stay on schedule, I will make 101 faces by Friday!  

Wheee!

This Week...

Tyler has a break from school, which means...

(Tyler's sketchbook.)

We're drawing...

And painting...

("u must dream to create art")

And, thanks to a pretty incredible six year old,

I'm re-learning some very important lessons!

Faces 13, 14, and 15 (Valentine Quickies!)

2013: 24

2013: 25

2013: 26

Happy Valentine's Day!

xoxo

Kristin

Faces 11 & 12

2013: 22

(prismacolor pencils)

Remember the process I told you about in my last post?

It works with paintings too!

For today's faces, I printed out copies of an underpainting I created last August...

2013: 23

(prismacolor pencils, watercolors, white gel pen)

And, started playing with the possibilities!

Faces 9 & 10 (And, A Favorite Process Revealed!)

2013: 20

(prismacolor pencils)

You may recognize this girl from yesterday's drawing.  

I created her by using one of my favorite techniques...

One drawing, endless possibilities...

When I make a drawing (like the one yesterday), I scan it into the computer.  Then, if I want to play with it some more, I lighten it up (in a photo editing program), and print it out on 110lb. white cardstock.

2013: 21

(gouache resist)

Then, I can play, play, play!

Face 8

2013: 19

Keeping it simple today...

Just a mechanical pencil, blending stump, and gum eraser.