ICAD UPDATE (more to come)

 

This one was done with watercolors.  

My Koi travel set and I also put a few strips of my mono printed tapes. 

Can't see much here.. but a bit of metallic paint from 

Deco Art, stabilo pencils, white sharpie paint pen

This was a fun collage Bert and a lil boy from an eastbay book, haha.. flowers.. acrylics from Deco Art, Matte medium and oil pastels from Prima's IOD collection.

Just another face..  get so addicted.  Neocolor 2s, Deco Art Acrylic Paints a little penwork with gel pens and white paint pen from sharpie and posca paint pens.

lots of deco art acrylic paints, gelatos, white paint pen by sharpie, and unibal white gel pen

water colors, neocolors 2, gelatos, oil pastels

ICAD Day 3/61- MY BIRTHDAY!

Supplies-

Deco Art Americana Acrylics, Gesso

Design Memory Craft Gelatos

Pilot Dual Pen (I may have to buy another one of these!)

Caran D Ache Neocolors 2

Posca Paint Pens

Sharpie White Paint Pen, China marker

Artist Cellar Stencil

Today is my birthday and although the theme is Snoopy.. I wouldn't be me if I didn't do a face instead. I enjoy faces and I enjoy using lots of color to create them. This is Day 2 of ICAD. Index Card A Day Challenge with the Awesome Tammy Garcia.. of Daisy Yellow.  They say if you do something every day for 21 days, it can easily become a habit!  Well here's to 61 days of arting EVERY DAY!  If you want to be a part of ICAD and would like information, click on the link here

Day 46- #90daysofblogging

I started doing some of my ICAD 2015.. I think I am only up to day 5, laughs.  I did this face though, It's not my normal face because, although I used my neocolor II.  I didn't activate them with water.  I activated them with matte medium.  Not sure if that will stop them from activating with moisture in the future, but as for right now.. She was cool to me.  The final layer of shadowing was actually done with my ebony pencil, not from layers upon layers of a raw umber. I still like her face.  I don't like her hair, the lines are to strong.  I guess I could go over them with some paint, but this only a index card.  Practice, practice and remembering some of those miscellaneous mistakes will help me get better.  

Day 42- #90daysofblogging

Just posting a few faces after following a few small steps in Jane Davenport's book, Beautiful faces.  So far the first chapter was all the supplies she loves to use and being a art supply junky.  I like Jane, I hear voice when I read her book..(literally)  The persona that we get from her free videos on YouTube and interviews we have seen her in, shine throughout the pages.  It's so funny, as I read her book and I find myself rereading the lines saying, that was not dramatic enough.. put more emphasis here.  Yet when she requested that we SMILE when we draw.. I couldn't bring myself to do that, probably my faces look so serious here.  my sketches of faces can take me a few as 90 seconds without adding color or details.  Her faces make me take a whole five to seven minutes, yikes.  I drew small and will try bigger as I get more confident.  My faces don't look as fairy/nymph like as hers, because they are MY FACES.  I only plan to take the portion of her teachings that I feel add value to mine.  Did I say I like my faces?  They aren't perfect and that's fine by me..  I need more help with coloring/painting etc.  Ok.. enough for this post.. :)