29 Faces #8

I planned to make something bigger with a harder medium last weekend, and on Sunday got started.

I chose the acrylic colours because the oil colours are nowhere to be found... (Must have packed and carried them to storage some time ago.)
I don't normally do the hole work with acrylic colours, rather just fix background or details.

I had this sketch from Friday as my starting point. I really liked it and wanted make more out of it.

And there was a little twist... At the time there came a documentary about Incas which gave an idea how to move on! Tonight after work and cooking I finally got finish this piece:

Unfortunately the scanner left the dress too red and bananas way too yellow. Anyway I must admit I'm surprised that this looks as good as it does! :-)

After working so long with one piece, I gave myself permission to relax the rest of this evening. I'm getting on with the challenge tomorrow. (Starting fresh with no plans!)

29 Faces #7

New face is here again!
I'm continuing with the oil pastels. I really start to enjoy them. :) I tried what happens, when you thin down oil pastels while using black paper. Turns out that does not look good, and after spreading the colours they just look foggy and loose their glow. I was relieved that the result was easy to fix because I had started to like the character.

This face is more close to the fifth face than sixth.

29 Faces #6

Today I continued with oil pastels, but now thinned them down with some linseed oil as planned.

There are some features I would change, but I decided to stop making corrections before the paper was totally covered. I like how the white paper shimmers through thin colour layers.

Thanks for all the comments, they mean a lot! It's nice to hear feedback when trying out new things. :)

Fairy Painting in Frames

I'm glad to finally present my latest bigger project: fairy painting in frames. I had such a fun time with it. :) I made this for a "secret fairy" friend swap and this is the first time I get to tell about it here.

I'd like to take part to following challenges:
Lexi's Creations: "Anything but a card"
Inspire Me Fridays 119: "Anything goes!"
Southern Girls Challenge: "Make Believe"

I wanted to use same theme for the painting and the frames. I decided to go for a "Summer in river bank" -theme based on my fairy sketch.
Last Spring I went to a course of Emmo. There I learned using gesso, stamps and acrylic colours all together. It helped to make the frames since I have never done those before. The gesso was great base for stamping and painting colours. To make the result water resistant I brushed two lyers of decoupage finish.

Materials of the painting:

Watercolour pans & pencils
watercolour paper 200g/m2

Materials for the frames:

Gesso
Dragonfly board stamp
Water resistant green ink pad
Acrylic paints
Decoupage finish

29 Faces #5

This fifth face took me more out of my comfort zone.
When I got off from work today, I decided to grab some coloured papers from book store. One of the papers

As I was reading Ayala's blog I noticed she dared everyone to try at least one new thing. So that's what motivated me this evening to create a colourful portrait to dark blue background with oil pastels.

It's fun to collect ideas for future faces. In my to-do-list there are at least...
- charcoal and red chalk with coloured paper
- oil colours
- acrylic colours
- finger painting
- stamping; art journal-like...

In weekend I might have time to test the more time consuming techniques. :) Yay!

29 Faces #4

Hello again!

The 4th face comes here:

The watercolours seem stuck on my desk, lol!
In this picture I used the pencils very little.
It was fun to do the hair with a thin paintbrush.

Thanks for looking! x

29 Faces #3

Yesterday was quite busy with my dance lesson and all, so this aquarelle is the third face I've made for 29 Faces -challenge.

I used watercolour pencils and watercolour pans (not sure if that's what you call it). Surprisingly hard but it's fun to see how water creates effects. :)