29 Faces–Day 6

 

She’s looking a little concerned.

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29 Faces–Day 5

 

This is Day 5 of the challenge. 

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9/2014–29 Faces #4 Pouty Boy

 

Wow this one was harder than I expected.  The angle of the face made it hard to get the eyes looking in the right direction and the mouth pouting in the right place. The top lip still isn’t exactly right, a little too thick.  But that’s it for tonight.

Hope you like him. From Hemlock Grove, meet Roman Godfrey (AKA actor Bill Skarsgard):

29 Faces– Sept 2014 #3

 

Day 3.  I gave myself a challenge for today. It was to draw a small face well. I find the tiny features difficult to draw. I need more practice. :).

The photo I used was of a child in a cute knit cap. What I ended up with is a woman in a knit cap way too young for her age.   Looks like I need practice with children's faces too.

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Sept 2014 - 29 faces 2nd

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Sept 2014 - 29 faces #1

 

It’s that time of the year. Time for another 29 faces challenge by Ayala Art at http://29faces.blogspot.com/p/sept2014.html

This is the 1st:

Creating in Lifebook 2014 class

 

I went from not spending time on my art to doing almost nothing but.  Here are some from Lifebook:

Week 5 - Sugar Sugar with Marieke Blokland

 

Week 6: Spray Ink Love with Tamara Laporte

Week 8 - Joy of Intention with Alena Hennessy

 

WK 10 -Positive Life Connections

I was going to post my art from Journal 52 but I think that’s enough for today.

What I didn’t do while I was away.

 

I bet you thought I disappeared, didn’t you?I did sort of…..I hadn’t been doing any real art since I posted last April and before that Christmas 2012.  Oh I’d been doing some crafty stuff but nothing that really excited me enough to post. 

In January 2014, I joined Tamara Laporte’s Lifebook 2014 to get me inspired again and so I’ve been immersed in the lessons.  Here’s is what I’ve produced so far:

My word for the year is Nourish.

Week 1

The class was Warm up exercise and an  Inner Artist Guardian with Tamara Laporte

 

wk 2

This class was A Happy Affirmation with Micki Wilde

Wk 3

The class was Creativity & Play with Carla Sonheim and I loved it. I hope to be able to take another class with her again.

Wk 4:

This was from Be True to You with Kelly Hoernig.  The class wasn’t about recycled materials but I took that liberty since that was being true to me. I used coffee filters for the flowers, browns paper bag for the background, cut letters from old magazines and used white plastic bag for the tag tie. This was fun page.

I think I’ll save the rest for another day…. if anyone is still reading…comeback soon for more.

Merry Christmas Friends

Sorry I've been absent for so long. I haven't been creating much these days. I must have artists block. 

But I did want to say to all my friends, I hope you all

 Have a Merry Christmas and Wonderful New Year.

I have Craft A.D.D.

Ever since we moved into our new home and my new studio, I can’t concentrate on one art or craft technique.  I want to do it all and there are just not enough hours in a day.  So what happens? Well, a whole lot of little crafty items that I normally wouldn’t do.

So other than getting the studio set up, and that’s not done to my satisfaction yet either, it’s a whole lot of little “getting to know you again” projects, most of which are inspired by Pinterest In fact, I’m blaming 50% of my craft ADD on Pinterest; 25% on the unpacking of some of the supplies that have been in storage for 2 years; and the other 25% is just my natural tendency to flit from technique to technique.

So what have I been up to? And just so you don’t think I’m exaggerating, here is some proof of my actual “craftiness”.

This first one is directly attributable to Pinterest.  If you use Pinterest, tell me you haven’t seen this before? I made it for my grandson’s room in our house.

Then I decided I wanted to add Crochet lace around the edge of some, not yet made, homemade pillow cases. :)  However, I didn’t know how to crochet, so I had to teach myself to crochet. And yes, with Pinterest help, I found some great sites that would teach me how to crochet.  (Sensing a theme here?) My first project was a scarf…just as winter was waning. 

Second crochet project is a multicolored afghan that I’m working on at night as I watch TV if it isn’t too hot to work on.  It does get warm under all that yarn.

 

Recently I’ve let my hair grow, at my husbands request, I might add.  So much so that it’s getting in my face and annoying me.  So before I cut it, I decided to make some barrettes using blanks I found at Hobby Lobby.  Here are the first 3 I made….any body who snickers will be….What? Patted on the back for having good taste?  Yeah.

The barrette below was finished yesterday and I do like this one. The main body of the barrette was made from a watch band that belonged to my mother. The actual watch part was missing and all that was left was the cool looking band and the glass crystal face. So I removed the bottom portion of the band leaving only the decorative portion. Then I found a metal shank button that seemed to be made just for this piece. I removed the shank and glued the button to the glass crystal using some E6000 glue. When it was dry I glued the piece you see here to the barrette blank. After drying for 24 hours, it’s ready for use.

What’s next? Yesterday I finished digging out a 13’ x 4’garden plot and I plan to do some Square foot gardening. It’s not crafty but it’s something we’ve been wanting to do for the last 2 years. I’m a little sore from all that digging.

As for crafting/Art, if I made a list of everything I want to do, I’ll drive myself crazy.

I‘m having fun but why can’t I just win the lotto so I don’t have to work for a living?  My husband says “You have to play to win.”  Oh yeah, there is that.