Faces

So topic 19 on the PaperArtsy blog is faces.....oh no most of us said I can't draw!! me included..but I was determined to have a go. I had stumbled across the Dina wakely video that Leandra had blogged about a few weeks ago and had a little practise on a couple of betting slips at work. You should pop over to the blog and have look at some the of the great faces on there..just here

I had a gelli plate journal that my lovely friend sam had made me and was holding off using it until I found somethig special to do with it. My inspiration for my face was a picture leandra had pinned from westbrook fine art...so I found a suitable page and sketched out the face in pencil. I coloured in the eyes and lips and then erased a lot of the outline to the face. I stamped various paper artsy minis in black archival and dry brushed some chalk paint randomly over the page

I couldn't get a decent piccie due to the light but really enjoyed this so will definately be playing around with some more faces..it's not brilliant but not too bad for a newbie


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Topic 18 wearable art...

The topic this time is wearable art over on the paper artsy blog....and as usual some great stuff..pop over here and have a look...

I started a couple of pieces last week and although one was finished and one nearly finished..I just haven't had the time to blog. So here goes..not a long post as I have a stinking cold and my eyes keep blurring lol..sneezing etc..you know how it is...

I started out with a metal heart and painted it in snowflake.I stuck on some patterened tissue paper and when that was dry I added a wash of snowflake over the top then stamped some script in black archival.
.Next I added some metal embellishments and a little resin bird. When all the glue was dry I added  blues and greens Lindy's samp gang sprays. When they were dry I scraped on some bead gel in random places...you may be able to see it if you enlarge the piccie.

I dry brushed some snowflake over the embellishments and when that was dry I sprinkled on some blue bistres and sprayed with some watered down gum arabic.

Lastly a ring through the top and threaded some ribbon...finished!

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