Tonight's play time face25 & mandala for week 39

I'm glad I've been able to do art so much these last 4 months!! Love my Lifebook course!!!

Demented Crazy Circus Folk 19 & 20/29

I thought I'd photo all three together since they were inspired by the same theme.
The two ATCS make faces 19 & 20.

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

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

29 faces 4/29 experiment with paper

I saw this pink coral ocean picture in an old National Geographic. I thought it would look cool as hair :). So I drew a very simple face to experiment with the paper shredding.
It's actually done on an envelope :)
Not my fav but fun nonetheless :)

29 faces 3/29 Christmas Miss

I hate winter but love Christmas :)
I wanted to use books pages from an old Christmas song book.

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.

Flower Child

Here is a face I finished painting around midnight. It's all water color pencil and white craft acrylic paint. I'm not really sure if it counts for 29faces lol

Shell Days!

I think I am obsessed with drilling shells! I went and purchased several other large shells. I have them soaking in water to make the drilling process somewhat easier. I love creating pieces from them and the polyclay faces! Pippi has a seahorse tutorial in the works and I can not wait until she has it done so I can incorporate them with the shell designs!

I'm also thrilled because I have been accepted into the Oktoberfest on Oct. 4, 2009! Excellent! Now I have to get in gear and make more pieces!

#13 of 25

Jewelry

Beads
Baubles
Crystals
Cubes
polyclay
seed beads
Czech glass
18 gauge wires
pliers
Cutters
WOW!!
Bend it!
Weave it!
Twist it!
Bead it!
Bake it!
Mold it!
Bold, bodacious, Ba da bing!
I love making jewelry!
My own personal flare!
My sassy , sexy diva Bling!!!

*The photo its a pic of the pendent and the handwritten version of this poem.*

Kato polyclay

Yesterday I played with Kato polyclay. Previosuly I had used Sculpey III for my polyclay needs. After working with the Kato, I am hooked! It is a much harder clay to work. It took a fair amount of rolling and working to get it conditioned. However, I loved how it held its shape. Also the clay mixed well. I used translucent and mixed varying amounts of the solid colors into it. When I baked the clay the shine was excelent. I really liked how it had a slight gloss. This was not true when I used translucent Sculpey III- it baked an all the shine dried up.

Here are a few clay faces made of Kato polyclay! I can't wait to work them up into some fantastic wire pendents!!!!