Gulfsprite http://www.gulfsprite.com sunshine and paint are all i need Thu, 17 May 2012 14:30:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 29 Faces Challenge – Day 17 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gulfsprite/~3/cszFbz1a0a0/ http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-day-17/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 14:30:19 +0000 Gulfsprite http://www.gulfsprite.com/?p=5162 Here is my face for today {day 17}:

She is barely there, tucked beneath an ink drawing of soldiers battling a fierce bombardment of gun fire. I know, but the book is a book about war that I re-purposed into an art journal. The ink drawings are beautiful even if of a strong, harsh subject matter.

Sketched very lightly in graphite and a bit of color added with color pencil. I still don’t feel like I have the hang of colored pencils. So I just keep practicing with them.

I’m not sure I will paint her. I think I may just paint ‘around’ her instead.

Posting early as I have errands to run today and some videos to process when I get back.

Happy Creating!

~Christy

PS: Eclectic Altered Art Journals is underway. I am loving it and hoping that my students will find it as easy and yet as mesmerizing and addictive as I do!

What is 29 Faces? It is a challenge run by Ayala over at ilove2paint.blogspot.co.uk where you draw and upload 29 Faces in May.

 

]]> http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-day-17/feed/ 0 http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-day-17/ 29 Faces Challenge – Day 16 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gulfsprite/~3/_c9Fu3Dqdlc/ http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-day-16/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 22:41:13 +0000 Gulfsprite http://www.gulfsprite.com/?p=5158 Here is my face for today {day 16}:

Today there are actually two faces. And although you can’t see her they are built from the pieces of the face I painted yesterday.

The page you see lifted up fully is yesterday’s face {you can’t see her, only the back of the page}.

The right portion of the first face {eye and cheek} are from yesterday’s face. The edge of hair and shoulder on the last page is also from yesterday’s face. But as you flip the pages you see two new faces drawn to fill in {and with a slightly different palette} the missing parts.

This was a bit of a challenge but a lot of fun! Each girl looks dramatically different from the next. Even though they are all made up of the same original girl.

Fun stuff that!

Tomorrow I will be on to something new.

Happy Creating!

~Christy

PS: Eclectic Altered Art Journals is underway. I am loving it and hoping that my students will find it as easy and yet as mesmerizing and addictive as I do!

What is 29 Faces? It is a challenge run by Ayala over at ilove2paint.blogspot.co.uk where you draw and upload 29 Faces in May.

 

]]> http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-day-16/feed/ 3 http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-day-16/ 29 Faces Challenge – Day 15 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gulfsprite/~3/IXoqfcZTV0g/ http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-15/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 22:10:30 +0000 Gulfsprite http://www.gulfsprite.com/?p=5053 Here is my face for today {day 15}:

Working in this crazy journal where I decided way back when {Dec of 2011} that I wanted to tear all of the pages up into different shapes. So this girl is painted across three pages that when the book is opened look like one page.

This journal has definitely been a challenge to work in. Perhaps I was feeling like I wanted something more from my journal at the time. A bit of something out of the normal for me. Or maybe I was just feeling frisky.

Not sure but it is making for an interesting working experience. I hope it will be just as interesting to look through when it is complete.

Do you think about that with your journals? About the experience others will have {or even yourself} looking through them? I don’t know why I do, perhaps it is from my web development days. When everything I did related to how others would use it/ feel about it/ see it.

Hope you are having a good week so far!

~Christy

What is 29 Faces? It is a challenge run by Ayala over at ilove2paint.blogspot.co.uk where you draw and upload 29 Faces in May.

 

]]> http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-15/feed/ 4 http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-15/ 29 Faces Challenge – Day 14 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gulfsprite/~3/1_1lgAmTjik/ http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-14/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 01:47:16 +0000 Gulfsprite http://www.gulfsprite.com/?p=5053 Here is my face for today {day 14}:

A quick face today as I have been putting the final touches on the Eclectic journals class for opening day tomorrow.

Fall back to my favorite colors with a bit of funky images. She is in my art journal and eventually will be a completed journal page. But for now she is partially done and today that is done enough for me.

Happy Creating!

~Christy

What is 29 Faces? It is a challenge run by Ayala over at ilove2paint.blogspot.co.uk where you draw and upload 29 Faces in May.

 

]]> http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-14/feed/ 0 http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-14/ 29 Faces Challenge – Day 13 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gulfsprite/~3/dHuxtVo0g88/ http://www.gulfsprite.com/2012/05/29-faces-challenge-13/#comments Sun, 13 May 2012 22:18:28 +0000 Gulfsprite http://www.gulfsprite.com/?p=5053 Here is my face for today {day 13}:

Sitting outside under the huge oak tree in my parents front yard I drew this girl. All I had was my journal and a small pencil case.

I had a few pages that had some paint and texture on them so I decided to get my girl drawn for today’s 29faces.

I drew her with ball point pen, then used a paper stump to smudge that ink a bit. Then I added a bit of white charcoal to the highlights and rubbed that in. Finally I used a soft graphite pencil to add some subtle shading to her hair and the background.

All in all a very relaxing 10 minutes and I don’t really feel the need to add any color.

Happy Mother’s Day!

~Christy

What is 29 Faces? It is a challenge run by Ayala over at ilove2paint.blogspot.co.uk where you draw and upload 29 Faces in May.

 

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