Painting a Lady Face in my Art Journal

A great big thanks to Amy Joy Johnson aka HapaChicCreative for her

Jane Davenport Portrait Paints - Demo & Unboxing YouTube tutorial.

Amy gives wonderful directions for using Jane Davenport's portrait paints and face stencil.

I'm so happy I gave this a try...and glad to have used this paint kit on the actual day I bought it!

So many times my supplies go into my stash and sit there unused!

This is my second "entry" in my art journal, a Canson 5.5 x 8.5 inch with 138 lb. paper.

I applied gesso ahead of time. I used a stabilio pencil to "draw" in the stencil lines, 

whereas Amy used a Derwent Inktense pencil.

Here you can see my work area with my iPad nearby

so I could watch Amy's YouTube over and over.

 The aqua brush was included with Jane's paint and stencil kit.

Also used brushes from my stash.

Here are the paints I used. I forgot to include a photo of Dina's Ruby red paint.

This paint tray pallette worked well. For the black outline/definition I put a dab of black paint on the top of this pallette and thinned it with a little water. Used it to accent the lines on the face, including around the eyes, the eyelashes, nose, mouth and eyebrows. I don't have Jane's mermaid  brush markers for the hair so I used Dina's Lapis blue mixed with some Liquitex Basics titanium white and Dina's Ruby red for the strips on the shirt. Don't have the white PITT pen to add highlights. Next time will try to use white acrylic paint for that.

This was very fun and relaxing to try make this face with Jane Davenport's stencil.

Thanks for visiting!

December 30 Stampfest with Lynette

Lynette and I decided to start some art journal pages with my new Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paints. I grabbed my previously gesso-ed papers and my new journal. It's a Canson 5.5 x 8.5 inch size with 138 lb paper. I don't know the details on the loose papers which were from my stash.

Before getting started we watched some YouTubes:

Dina Wakley's Dina Wakley Talks About Art and Art Journaling

and

Jenn Engle's Art Journal Page: New Dina Wakley Paints

Then we had a ball playing with paint, stencils, stabilio pencil, the fine tip applicator to write with Dina's paints

Made by Lynette

Made by Lynette

This and the next photo show my attempts. You can always click on an image to enlarge.

It has been very fun and relaxing to try to draw lady faces like Dina Wakley and Jane Davenport.

Inspired by page 77 of Jane's book, Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces: A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop, I cut out an oval and tried to draw a face with my India Ink Pitt 0.1mm extra fine pen. I used Golden gel medium-Soft Gel (Semi-Gloss) to adhere it to the page and also added the gel over the oval. It dried quickly and ended up with a nice semi-gloss finish that was not too shiny. On the left panel, I drew the face with a stabilio pencil. Noticed that the pencil bled when I tried to add some watered down Lapiz blue paint. So I added some white from a white out pen to "fix" the eye. I'm not sure I liked how the stabilio pencil got bled, so will have to experiment with it. I really like Dina's attitude...about just making art and not worrying! Just love her words, "Oops, oh well". She gives everyone permission to have fun with art!

Here is a photo of Lynette and me--

a nice remembrance our our fun exercise in art journaling with paints!

Materials:

Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paint

Fine Tip Applicator for writing words in black paint

Stabilio pencil

Faber-Castell India Ink pen

Dina Wakley Word Stencil-"Hey You"

Sequin waste stencil

Flat paint brushes

Toothbrush