ART JOURNAL EVERY DAY - a month of faces complete

HERE IS THE FINAL PART OF THE ART JOURNAL EVERY DAY MONTH OF FACES

The final 4 slots are full - 

On the left, 2 Egyptian heads inspired by pictures of tomb paintings; they are on cream water colour paper using water colour crayons and water.

The 29th June is from a photo on my mobile phone - on 28th I went to my last pottery session until September and I was desperate to finish this head  so it can dry out and be fired - I cannot list the number of decapitations, crackings and downright falling downs she has endured over the last few weeks so I think she has earned her spot!

And finally there is an ink head with lots of gloating written in it along the lines of yay I did it!

This is how the whole right hand page looks - in retrospect maybe I should have used new blank pages and worked straight into the journal instead of using the page grids I did for Strathmore Workshop2 as the dark background has been such a pain that I have frequently ignored it and stuck things over it - so I have totally cheated I suppose!

However, I am really pleased with the final spread four pages, see above - it has been a really interesting exercise and I am so pleased that  Julie Fei-Fan Balzer at Balzer Designs was such an inspiration!!

now - what to do for JULY's Art Journal Every Day!

ART JOURNAL EVERY DAY - a month of faces - 21st to 26th June

21st June was the Summer Solstice so I did a sunshine shimmering goddess...

22nd June - I am still playing with the idea of butterfly women...

23rd June - our older son's birthday - he has been living in the USA since 2009; this is a drawing from a photograph of him and his wife.

24th June - these little squares are very fiddly, I am not used to working this small! 

However, I have an abstract colour head for 24th.

25th - a sad blue head!!

26th - a savage Francis Bacon head

4 spaces left to fill!!

ART JOURNAL EVERY DAY - A Face A Day UP TO 18TH JUNE

Butterfly - no puffin - spotting in Wales



There has been a delay in posting my "face a day" as we have been in Wales, originally butterfly hunting (to photograph them!).




There was nothing flying we went to South Stacks cliffs at Holyhead in Anglesey. 



It is an RSPB reserve with guillemots, choughs and my all time favourite bird the puffin. The puffins nest in burrows on a grassy slope high above sheer cliffs down to the sea.


 You get to see them by going down a long series of steps cut into the cliffs - which is why I am looking hot and windswept but very pleased with myself!

Back to a Month of Faces

These pictures, therefore, cover the 13th June

 to today, the 18th June. 

The 13th June is a drawing of a very pretty doll's head with pouting lips; I used the Pentel Aquash water colour crayons and blended the face with water afterwards.

The 14th June was inspired by an article in The Times about the Chemical Brothers - I loved the strange colours in the accompanying illustration.  

The 15th June is a cartoony lady - the kind of woman who scared me to death when I was a small girl, probably because I wouldn't eat my school dinners - done with colour pencils and black and white ink.

The 16th is a rather natty Victorian gent, part of my Edgar Allan Poe drawings, with a wash of colour.

The 17th is probably a relative or a younger version of 15th June, thankfully she is asleep now!

 And the 18th is another  interactive art example - inspired by  "Interactive art workshop : set your mixed media in motion" by Kim Rae Nugent". This time I used  a child's pinball machine toy with the back removed and replaced by a shameless theft of a Klimt style lady.

And the picture of the layout of the two pages shows the grid waiting to be filled....

ART JOURNAL EVERY DAY - a month of faces - 10th, 11th, 12th June

YAY!! So I  am art journalling every day, even if it has taken me six months to actually do it.   But I haven't posted because I was out yesterday doing a 3 mile charity walk  - it was really nostalgic as I was walking around all the little country lanes where I used to run for 3, 5, 8, 10 miles depending on the route - and a little voice was saying "do it again!! You're not too old!!"

The first picture is from a photograph I took in 2007, just a quick sketch, again very nostalgic. Our little grand-daughter had a catastrophic birth on Boxing Day 2006 and was in a the Special Care Baby Unit for 3 weeks, with 10 days of that in an induced coma. But she came through with just mild left side hemiplegia. So the day I took this photograph was the day I thought we would never see...

So - A bit of light relief for 11th 

A happy zetti girl

RESCUING  POTTERY  SCULPTURE

And for today this is a drawing based on a sculpture I did of a Victorian-esque woman in a Miss Havesham frame of mind.

I spent months at my pottery group making a Victorian feeling woman with a surreal line in moth collecting.

As she was made she just grew bigger and bigger.

However, disaster struck when she was fired and lots of her just fell off:(

However, I took her home and using real lace dipped in matte acrylic medium I managed to sculpt enough of her back to be worth gessoing her, painting her in acrylic and varnishing her. 

She now sits in a front bedroom window as a kind of spooky burglar alarm...