29 Faces--#7 and #8

I really don't think I'm going to be able tokeep up with 29 faces. But here are the last two of the four I started a couple days ago. I'm going to have to do something different for the next ones, as I have run out of white gouache. For some reason, when I was ordering gouache, I forgot to order white, and just had a little tube left over from something.

But I think these have a lot of possibility. I'm trying to tell myself not to get too fussy with them. The gouache and ink part is pretty crude, and it wouldn't fit to be fussy with the lines.

29 Faces--#5 and #6

I can see already that this is going to be really hard to keep up with. 29 faces in 30 days. If I can include sketchbook faces, it would be a piece of cake, because I do those all the time. But these more deliberate things. We'll see.....

So there are things I like about each of these, but then other things that I don't. I see you can't really make "corrections" with the black ink, because it has a different sheen putting it on at this point.

So this makes me only two days behind (still). I have two more in the works, which if I could finish them today, I'd be caught up. But then what about tomorrow. This might be too much pressure....

29 Faces--Catching up with #3 and #4

Two more with the gouache resist andIndia ink. I was so skeptical at first, and not liking the crudeness, but I guess if one is going to experiment with something, then only making one isn't really enough. So I may do all 29 of these faces with this technique, and see what happens.

29 Faces--#2 The Bellow

Okay....here's the second one. I started four days late, so I'm going to have some catching up to do. This is altogether too many posts, so I may double up.

But this is another gouache resist and India ink. My son and I both agreed that I shouldn't adulterate this one with lines, so I won't. Or, at least I don't think I will.

29 Faces

I just ran across this cool challenge--29 Faces in September--to do 29 faces in 30 days, and since faces are my THING, I think I'll do it. Here's the link, to Ayala's Art site, with her challenge: http://ilove2paint.blogspot.com/p/29-faces-sept.html.

Meeting days sketches

So.....it's back to school, back to work, back to meetings. Here are two sketches from two different days of meetings. Looking at some of the old scans, from earlier professional development days, these seem a bit deficient. But alas. A sketch is a sketch, and it is what it is.......

Illustration Friday: Identical

I have this really cool book on facial expressions, with about a hundred pictures of maybe sixty or seventy people--of all ages and types making all sorts of different expressions. It's really fun to draw series of them. Can you tell this is the same person? (I'm not sure that I can).

This is also a new technique--one I'm not sure that I will ever do again. It's a gouache resist with black ink stroked over it, and then the whole thing run under the sink when it's dry to wash the ink-over-gouache off. It's a bit crude, and wasteful, I think, of gouache, but has some interesting possibilities. But the thing about new techniques is that there's a learning curve, and only by working with it again and again can you gain any kind of control over it. Things can be pretty dreadful at first, but I think I'll post anyway, just as a demonstration (maybe even just to myself).

Nope. I couldn't live with that. So I added some more pen work, and feel much better. (That's the one on top.) So I reckon I'll be trying this again.

Okay, so the third person didn't work. Snip. Enough of this already.....