faces – soultreat…artjournaling

The Beautiful Faces book by Jane Davenport, was a gift I received at Christmas. And she also has an online class by the same name, which I am taking. The class works through the exercises in the book, showing shading and techniques to draw and paint faces. It’s lots of fun.

This is a drawing I did from one of her lessons. I did not have all the same art supplies so I had to improvise with what I have.

I have also been taking Kelly Kilmer”s, Making my Mark monthly collage art journal class. Somewhere along the way I hope to develop a style of art journaling of my own.

With Easter almost here, the last few months have flown by, I so wanted to achieve much more than I have. I wanted to blog far more than I have done, and filled an art journal. I still struggle with finding meaning to my pages, maybe that just takes time.

This is the first page in a art book, I am going to alter. This face is coloured with copic marker, I’ve had for 6 months and hardly used. I know I have a lot to learn about copic markers, but that is half the fun. The first layer was cheap gesso, which is a little too plasticy, than a stencil with ink and then I just went ahead and sketched and coloured the face. I am surprised the markers went as well as they did over the gesso. And they didn’t bleed through to the other side which was great. They are a bit too streaky though, but if I add more layers and some coloured pencils that might help.