DLP–2015 January and Wk 1

Creating a Monthly page is not part of DLP but since my journal has 12 more pages than what is needed for the weekly challenges, I thought I ‘d create a monthly page. 

This month has a theme outside of what we’re doing in DLP: Birds just because I love birds.   …I’ve also added a tab for the month. I cut a tab template out of a file folder and covered it with patterned paper, then stamped the month on it. Then glued it behind the page, because there it will be covered with the add in I use for the planner portion.

The weekly page is this:

 

The DLP monthly theme is “blank pages”, meaning what to do when faced with a blank page. This weeks the theme is illustrated by covering the page with book papers. This is not new to me as I’ve been doing it for a while but it’s a favorite technique so I used them on my page.

Now don't ask me why she's pointing, your guess is as good as mine.

Happy New Year Everyone

I hope you had a wonderful New Years eve celebration.  My husband and I went out to dinner at one of our favorite Mexican food places where I had a vegetarian combo along with a tasty margarita. Yum.

We came home and watched some TV together until Midnight. Then toasted in the New Year with some Sparkling Apple Cider.  Yes we are that exciting. ;-) haha

This is my last entry in my 2014 DLP Journal – Prompt - Begins with the first letter of your first name.  Since my name is Linda, I chose the word “Life”.

The quote is :

The most important things in life aren’t things. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

Still drawing faces

 

I started out to draw a few sets of eyes; just eyes so I could get in some more practice but she wouldn’t sit still for just eyes.  She said all or nothing.  So the full face it was. Sometimes you just have to do what the muse wants to do. .

It’s Sunday

 

Spent the early part of the day harvesting veggies from the garden and boy did we get tons of eggplant, zucchini, butternut squash, and sweet potatoes. I see a roasted vegetable and quinoa salad in our future.

Then there is the new face.  What can I say, I like drawing faces.  This is is a little too dark around the hairline but I like it.  This one was started with ink because I was foolish enough to think I could join INKtober 31 (361 ink drawings in 31 days).  Well, I did join only to figure out it was over my head.  I’m not an ink person.  I like to erase too much.  In other words, there isn’t a first line that I like let alone love.

It ended up being a colored pencil drawing. 

What are/were you up to on Sunday?

Sadly 29 faces -September 2014 has ended

Here is my entire collection for the month.

I hope you enjoyed the challenge as much as I did.

Thank you for visiting. I really enjoyed your comments.

29 Faces #29

 

Yay! I did it! Drew 29 faces in 30 days. That was fun and I needed the practice. Believe it or not, I wish it wasn’t over yet….I need the push to create everyday and I love drawing faces.

Thanks to Martha of Ayala Art for once again hosting the September edition of the 29 Faces challenge.  It takes a lot work to pull the challenge off and she does it so well.

The drawing is 3’ wide.

 

Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the other 29 Faces participants listed on: http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/sept2014.html

29 Faces #27 and 28

Posting two today.

#27

and

#28

Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the other 29 Faces participants listed on: http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/sept2014.html

29 Faces # 26

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the other 29 Faces participants listed on: http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/sept2014.html

29 Faces #25

 

Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the other 29 Faces participants listed on: http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/sept2014.html

29 Faces #24

 

#24  Sorry about the weird angle. I couldn’t get a good picture due to graphite shine. I think I need to start scanning the pictures.

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the other 29 Faces participants listed on: http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/sept2014.html

29 Faces # 23

 

This is #23… getting close to the end

Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the other 29 Faces participants listed on: http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/sept2014.html

29 Faces #22

#22 already…...

Why the big laugh? He heard this joke: 

An Irish woman of advanced age visited her physician to ask his advice on reviving her husband's libido. "What about trying Viagra?", asked the doctor. "Not a chance", she said... "He won't even take an aspirin." "Not a problem," replied the doctor. "Give him an Irish Viagra." "What is Irish Viagra?", she asked. "It's when you drop the Viagra tablet into his coffee. He won't even taste it. Give it a try and call me in a week to let me know how things went."

It was a week later when she called the doctor, who directly inquired as to her progress. The poor dear exclaimed, "Oh, faith, bejaysus and begorrah! T'was horrid! Just terrible, doctor!"

"Really?, What happened?", asked the doctor.

"Well, I did as you advised and slipped it in his coffee and the effect was almost immediate. He jumped straight up, with a smile on his face, a twinkle in his eye and with his pants a-bulging fiercely! With one swoop of his arms, he sent me cups and saucers flying, ripped me clothes to tatters and took me then and there passionately on the tabletop! T'was a nightmare, I tell you, an absolute nightmare!"

"Why so terrible?" asked the doctor, "Do you mean the sex your husband provided wasn't good?"

"Freakin' jaysus, it was the best sex I've had in 25 years! But sure as I'm sittin' here, I'll never be able to show me face in Starbucks again."

Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the other 29 Faces participants listed on: http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/sept2014.html

29 Faces # 19, 20, 21

You’re eyes do not deceive you, there are 8 faces on this page not three. But since they are small and I sketched them over three days, I’m only counting them as three. I knew the weekend would be busy with only small chunks of time, here and there, to work on the 29 faces project. So my challenge was to draw as many small faces as I could over the weekend, all on the same page (the page to be completed at a later date)

I have to tell you, pencil drawings are not easy to photograph, especially in low light. The graphite picks up a sheen and obliterates the detail of the drawing. Oh no, I’m not making excuses for the bad drawings, only the bad photograph. :)

I think I like the top left and the bottom left faces the best.

 

Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the other 29 Faces participants listed on: http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/sept2014.html

29 Faces # 18

I spent so much time on the last drawing that I needed just a quick one this time.

#18

Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the other 29 Faces participants listed on: http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/sept2014.html

Sept 2014 - 29 Faces # 10

This is a little departure from was I was doing but I thought I’d take a break from the pencil and paint a little. 

Actually used I used: Napkin tissue for the background, gesso, pencil, acrylic paint, Prismacolor colored pencils, and watercolor pencils from Derwent.

 

Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the other 29 Faces participants which are listed on:

http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/sept2014.html

A Christmas Angel

Here’s a piece I started working on a while back.  When I started it she had a different face and it didn’t inspire me to finish it.  So I finally got around to re-working the face and I like her much better now.

 

 

Linking to Paint Party Friday because I haven’t partied in way too long!

PS: This painting is dedicated to my mom, whose birthday would be today. I love you and miss you Mom!

New Traveling Art Journal page

Not having much time for art these last couple weeks. Needed to get this out, I hope Christi likes it. Christi provided some cool paper to journal on. I loved the gridded text and decided to let it show through.

St. Clare

We started something new this week, my “husband” bought the dvd’s for the Insanity workout for the both of us. I’ll have you know there is a reason they call it the “Insanity” workout; it’s because you have to be insane to do this workout if:

1. you are over 25 and
2. you are not in shape to begin with.

I’ll bet you can guess that I have hardly been able to move. Notice who I blamed (said “husband”) because I can hardly move my arms to paint….no, it’s not my fault I’m so out of shape. :)

Well after a week I have finally moved out of the “so sore I can hardly move” stage and was able to complete the painting of St Clare. And you’ll notice that I took some liberties with the color. The original painting by Simone Martini (1284-1344) is below my rendition.

The lesson for this weeks Diary of faces class was hands, but I feel that the position of the mouth and nose and the head cloth was more difficult than the hands in this painting. 

Overall I’m happy with how it turned out.

Here is the original:

If you’d like to know more about St. Clare, visit this Link: St Clare 

I’m linking to Paint Party Friday, please the other participants. There always lots of wonderful art to see.

Faces of Angels and Saints

What I have for this week’s Paint Party Friday entry are a couple of works in progress.

The first is an angel using one of my 29 faces sketches from May that I painted as a male last week but a female this week. (What a difference thin eyebrows make.)  It’s still a work in progress as I need to do something to the background and the wings.

This next work in progress is for the Diary of faces class. I chose to work on a rendition of a portion of Simone Martini (1284-1344)- painting of Saint-Clare.  I’ll show the full painting when I complete the painting.   This week the focus was supposed to be hands but I’m having more problems with the shadows on the head cloth than the hands. Hopefully it will look better when it’s painted.

Any constructive criticism on the sketch is welcome. I’ve been looking at it so long I can’t tell if it’s all pointed in the right direction. :)

Thanks for stopping by. Please be sure to visit the other Paint Party Friday participants. 

Diary of Faces wk 2

Here is my rendition of Nicolae Grigorescu’s painting named Gypsy's Head. Nicolae Grigorescu was a Romanian Painter, 1838-1907 and was one of the founders of modern Romanian painting.  You can see more of his art by clicking here.

Here is my initial sketch

This is my painting, and it seems that somewhere in the middle of the painting she decided to look elsewhere than straight ahead. I mean, in my initial sketch and the original painting the eyes are looking straight ahead and now they are looking to the left.   But over all I’m pleased with the results. At least she isn’t googly eyed right?

and below is the original work by the artist:

I’m linking to Paint Party Friday. Please go visit this blog and all the wonderful art by the participants.

 

One last note: And I have to say welcome back to my precious Little G who spent a confusing week away from his mama, papa and nana. My cautionary note for the week: If you’re thinking of taking a child away from his only source of security, please think of the child and not your own petty reasons for taking him. It took him quite a while to feel secure again that we weren’t going to leave him.  I’m sure no one reading this blog would do that to a child but I had to say it.  That’s all.