I've been working on this girl off and on for a few weeks and I finally called her done yesterday. Hubby was outside, so I put my favorite music up LOUD and let the paint fly!
Inspired by a Jeanne Marie Webb free class (from her course "Love in the Time of no Water") in the Twelve Days of Creativity during Christmas last year on Ivy Newport's website. Acrylics and gold pen on mixed media paper in my 8" x 10" sketchbook. It was supposed to be on a round substrate, but I didn't have one so I drew a circle on the page and tried to stay in it!
The first photo is a close up of the finished piece. Not a great photo, but it shows the gold specs above her left eye and the trim on her mask. The rest are some of the many stages of ugly she went through before she looked kind of decent. I can live with her now!
Initial sketch, but different, from the reference photo in the class video...
Base colors...
I couldn't print off the reference photo from the class video, so I found a different photo of Jeanne's on Pinterest that I liked and combined the two, putting a mask on her, and changed some of the colors. Hated it!
Worked on her some more, but hated her even more! She looks like she smells something really bad!
I hated her enough that I painted out everything except her face, and I re-worked it. I already liked her better and debated whether to add the foliage, as per the class, back on.
I did another sketch with a water soluble pencil and decided to add a bit of simpler foliage. I also re-painted the background around the circle a lighter grey to cover up where I got out of the circle some and the smudges around it. Whoops!
I kept fiddling with her until she got to this point, at which time I decided to leave her be and call her a victory. Now I can live with her!
She has been a challenge, for sure, but a fun one! In no way does my art compare to Jeanne Marie Webb's, but I love hers, and I enjoyed this class, as well as her teabag course, and I am thinking seriously about taking her Come Clay With Me course on paper clay sculptures. We'll see.
Sometimes the guilt over studying and doing art instead of cleaning house overwhelms me and I don't do either for a while. The house is in terrible need of a good cleaning, but at my age I'm thinking I don't want to spend what's left of my life just cleaning. Art and writing is what makes me happy! Thank goodness that hubby took over the cooking when he retired! Although, sometimes I feel guilty about that too. Neither of us is young anymore. :(
Anyway, hope you are all well and staying cool in this heat! Keep being creative, whatever it is that makes you feel good!
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