Lady Faces July 2023

I'm at it again...artist "wanna-be"! This time I'm using my Jane Davenport Whimsical Girls book as my guide. This book was meant to be a workbook. The pages are made from and labeled with different kinds of paper: watercolor, marker paper, thin craft paper, coloring paper. There are a few pages of thin, colorful, collage paper that you can tear and use with acrylic medium for mixed media projects. For now, I am using this book for ideas on how to draw my lady faces. Not working on the actual pages of this book. Also, I just noticed that Jane has a YouTube on this book. 

For these faces, I used India Ink FABER-CASTELL Pitt Artist Pen, black, F (0.5 mm) and Canson watercolor paper, cold pressed 250 g/m2. When dry, I used Superior brand watercolors (set of 18 that my sister, Grace gave me). Also used my Jane Davenport  12 pan Bright Pallette watercolor set. Once dry, I added some ink blending to darken the colors: Gina K's sweet mango, wild dandelion, lucky clover and red velvet inks. Then I added some stamping around the edges.

This is the inside of the card.

For this second card, I used colored pencils to color the lady and ink blending for the border: Gina K's sweet mango, wild dandelion, lucky clover and passionate pink inks.

Here is the inside of that card.

I decided not to color the border of this card. Really liked the lady as she is. I wasn't sure which colors to use for the background...and was afraid to ruin what I had already done.

Here is the inside.

I wanted to try the "lined" hair that I saw in Jane's book. It was more difficult than it looked. Always seems that way! Jane has written text beside many of her drawings in the Whimsical Girls book. I decided to try it. I copied her way of creating the letters-fun to do. I wanted to make this girl's purple hair a little different so I blended some red with the purple on my pallette. Also I copied the blouse design from Jane's book.

I really enjoyed the process of drawing and painting. And it was fun to make the drawings into cards that I can send to friends.

Stamps: 

Stampin' Up-Letters from Friends

Heidi Grace/Fiskars-Dreamer

Heidi Grace/Fiskars-Cherrywood Ln.

Tim Holtz Mixed Media Collection Stampers Anonymous clear stamps/stencil set-THMM114

Dimensions Crafts-Thoughts of fancy stamps

Sentiment Stamps:

Penny Black-

  Friendships...2945H

  What matters...293CH

Hero Arts wood mounted set of 3 stamps-Nicest Thoughts

Stampendous-Treasured Friend

Stampabilities-Between Friends ER1034

Thanks for visiting!

Peace and all good!

Six Airplane Cards

There are lots of birthdays coming up in August. I mass produced these last month. These cards are very fun to make.

Stamps used: 

Tim Holtz Visual Artistry Stampers Anonymous Cling rubber set called The Journey, CSS 30232

Tim Holtz City Central clear stamp-heart with lines coming out from it and red stars. I did not use the ticket stamp from this set, however. Instead used the ticket stamp from...

Tim Holtz Curious Possibility CSS30195. The Ticket stamp is the same as the one from City Central, but this one is larger! Tim has multiple images in different sizes in different stamp sets!

Stampin' Up! Office Ephemera-airplane stamp

Hero Arts -CL488 Type-the HAPPY BIRTHDAY sentiment

Inks: 

distress faded jeans, frayed burlap

Gina K-red velvet

Stampin' Up!-creamy caramel

Thanks for visiting!

Peace and all good!