29 faces 24/29 Darla

This is just a piece trying to practice 3/4 views and shading.

5.5x8.5 65lb sketch paper
Mechanical pencil

29faces 23/29. B-girl

In Willowing Forums, Tam put up a challenge this week to make a Bee girl. I decided to go somewhat literal :)
It's a tiny 3-inch colored pencil and ink sketch in my mixed media journal.
She has a face so.... Lol :)

29faces 21/29 model

Here us another practice from tonight. I am not so good at full body drawings so I'm practicing. Again I used Crayola metallic crayons, ink, and a white envelope.

29 faces 21/29 Mask of the Orange Life

Here is an attempt at a model figure.
Here is also the face I started this evening.
6x6 watercolor paper
Chalk pastels
Color pencil
Squash Blossom DecoArt craft paint

29 faces 18/29 Hollow Girl

I'm still experimenting to find what to make for the Crazy Circus / Demented ATC SWAP. Here is something I came up with on 4x6 greeting card. Now, to see if I can shrink it down or modify for an ATC.
I used
4x6 greeting card
Muslin, medium flesh, Westport grey, and cool blue DecoArt craft paint
Watercolor pencil
Walmart scrapbook paper
EK border punch
Gel medium

29faces 16 & 17/29

I was doodling around with supplies. The first is craft paint, watercolor pencil, and pen.

The second is Crayola crayon and ink on a 4x6 envelope.

29 faced 15/29

I wanted to experiment and try to use the dots in a circus themed face. I joined Willowings ATC swap demented or Crazy Circus. However, it did not come out at all circus- like or demented. I do like how it came out though.
4x6? Greeting card
Watercolor pencil
Ink
Hb graphite pencil

I think I'm more illustration than paint. I like the crisp and stark lines in my pieces.

29faces 14/29 Dreams

14/29
6x6 watercolor paper
Watercolor pencil
Pen

29 faces 11/12/13

I was just doodling in my art book tonight.  Here are three faces I did this evening.  I took the pics with my webcam so not the best photography but oh well.

HB pencil
98lb mixed media paper

29 face 10/29 Diana Goddess

I was going somewhere totally different.  I wanted to do an Afro girl, but this is what came out during sketching time.
mixed mdia 98lb 9x12 paper
HB graphite pencil

29faces 9/29. Sight

Have you ever starting drawing or painting with an end result in mind but then you realize you actually wanted minimalism? I actually did this pic on the 9th. I was going to post it as unfinished. Then I woke up today and looked at it again. It says what I wanted. So it's finished!

Sometimes I think if it's not layered and layered and cluttered and ornate then it's not a done piece. BS. The point is message and feeling.

6x6 watercolor paper
Water color crayons
2 blue color pencils

Mermaid Girl earrings colored :)

These are about to be baked and wired! They will go up for sale in my etsy shop.

29faces 8/29 Beatrice Grey

I had this piece of cardboard from an Amazon .com package. I gave myself the challenge of using only 3 Crayola markers and an HB pencil.
Doing this face also showed me how dark the shadow side of the nose really has to be in order to get a decent pop!

29faces 7/29 Pensive Broken Clown

This is in spired by the ATC September swap prompt on Willowing site. Also because I liked the blue bubble paper :). I plan on painting it but not sure how I want to go with it.

6x6 scrapbook paper
Pencil

29faces 5/29 Beary Best Friends

Here is face 5. It's not finished but I wanted to rough something in for the challenge!

29 Faces 2/29 the Fortune Teller

Here is 2/29!
It totally did not go where I thought it was! That's the best part of true creativity! - never know where you'll truly end up.

29 faces and other challanges

So exciting, September is filling up with challanges!  I am joining the 29 faces in September challange!  We are supposed to make 29 faces of any kind during September.  I am really looking forward to it since I have been taking Life Book 2012 and Fab Faces.  It should be fun to have even more face time practice! :)  Woot.  You can find information on the challange at ths link http://ilove2paint.blogspot.com/p/29-faces-sept.html  It looks to be fun!  I just hope I can keep up with posting on a daily basis!  I wonder if youtube videos count as posting?  :)

Secondly, I am doing my own Smashing Art Writing Journal challange 2 (SAW2).  I hosted the art journal challange in July, this is the second round.  You can check that out here on my youtube channel. http://youtu.be/sQ0Bm253xss

My third challange thsi month is an exercise healthier living event.  That you can see here. http://youtu.be/_6jG8ZDOhLU
Let the fun begin!!

Experiment

Sometimes you just want to get out of your rut, you jewelry box. I wanted to try some shrink plastic art today. Actually I've been wanting to for the last few months. I bought the supplies but did not do anything with them. So today, I decided to try my hand at creating some mehndi inspired designs to transfer to the shrink plastic. I came up with these 2. I'm interested to see how they come out after baking!