The Second Finished Piece

I also presented this one for the 29 faces challenge in February. It originally looked like this on card stock. I cut her out and cut the other collaged peices out and reworked it onto a 12x12 piece of plywood after layering with various papers and inks. Somehow it feels better. It feels finished now. Thanks for visiting here......................................jo

The Finale- 29 faces challenge... #28 and OM Goodness We Have to Do One Extra...........

I've been playing lately. Playing with creating this stuff called acrylic skin. The doodling in her face is the skin that I made and cut up and pasted on. This is the first attempt. I'll come back and report more on that later. And for #29 I sat in the car before work with pencil and charcoal. It's a beginning. It's a quick one. I've been watching the activities for a long time over at Paint Party Friday where there's a lot of "cool stuff." (I've just not had the nerve to submit anything.) There is an invitation but somehow I feel like I'm a new comer crashing the party. I'm going to crash it tonight. And also here. This 29 faces challenge has been...... a challenge, pretty much a fun challenge when I didn't take myself too seriously. I think I'm getting better at not doing that. I might come back and do it again. Thanks to Martha. Thanks to those who visited here and took the time to leave a comment. ......... jo P.S Ha ha ha ha ha. I just went to post this to 29 Faces and found that Mr. Linky Widget expired 28 hours ago. Ha ha ha ha.

More Faces- Continued

Continuing on with the face challenge, here is one more day. Another page in the altered book project. This face is kind of strange. I like it that way. :) And speaking of faces.......... remember this piece I showed you a while ago? This is piece of foam board that was on my work table for at least 6 mos. The catch all, catch everything piece that I decided I wanted to begin to draw/paint faces on. It began like this. And they first appeared like this. I thought they looked ill(lol) and I got disgusted so I left them alone... for nearly a year. I got brave again. They became this. And at present they look like this. I still have a long way to go, however, I do feel I am making some small progress. I'm just going to keep showing up and doing the work. Practice, practice, and more practice. You can learn more about 29 faces and see lots more cool faces here. Thanks for visiting ...............jo

Pink Hair- Day 5 of 29 Faces

I always wished to have the nerve to color my hair pink. I'm just playing with color here and trying not to have the same skin tones and colors in every face. I need to work on more shading and depth etc. Perhaps it will come. This is not going to be graded. Right? And like most everything, it has to be practiced. So, I shall keep showing up to show you the good, the ok and not so ok stuff. ................jo

Making Faces - Yay for Me and 29 Faces

I say" Yay for Me" because I have been somewhat technologically challenged when it comes to navigating my way around the template, layout etc. When it comes to adding or subtracting stuff. Kind of like math. lol, it's not always been my thing. But ok. I couldn't help myself. My friend Robin appears to be having so much fun with this challenge, in fact everyone appears to be having so much fun making faces. The fact that I was able to add the darn gadget to my blog is a sign that I was meant to do it. I joined today. Remember the composition notebook of In the Van faces? Well, I've "graduated" to altering a hard bound book I picked up at a thrift store back in December. This has become my new In the Van Faces book. So, it seems right on time for this 29 day challenge. Here are my first four day of faces. I'm sorry that the photography is not great in some of these photos. Alright then. Now let me go tackle this "Linky " business and check out all the other faces................ Jo