tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21533676847481550002024-03-14T03:03:24.501+00:00Bling-Kin-EckChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.comBlogger434125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-18587645782808341252015-01-05T23:14:00.002+00:002015-01-05T23:14:25.473+00:00My Art is moving...<span style="font-size: large;">I am hoping for a good year this year and wish each and everyone of you a Happy New Year too. There have been lots of changes for me over the last couple of years, not least of all to do with my health. I have moved away from crafting somewhat and prefer spending my time creating art and journalling. Therefore I decided to create a new blog to allow me to grow as an artist. I want to thank each and every one of you for your continued support of my blog and for the friendships I have made in blogland and I do hope that you will follow me to my new Art space.</span><br />
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-47631294058159073662014-04-18T10:37:00.001+01:002014-04-18T10:40:11.591+01:00TAG give-awayThere's nothing quite like...... crafting with a buddy. My Pal Chriss has been staying with me for a couple of weeks and we have both re-discovered our crafting mojo :) <br />
Cutting, stamping, pasting, doodling have all been on the agenda and such fun we've had. Tags have mostly been the order of the day for me and I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed making them. I'm still missing drawing but I need new specs to do that.... I WILL get myself to the opticians soon... but I can manage to cut things out fairly well without them so I've still managed to play.<br />
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I've made quite a few tags so I thought it would be nice to have a little give-away so that you can share in the fun. Leave a comment on this post to be included in the draw to win this double sided tag and it could soon be winging it's way to your house. I hope you like it and thanks for visiting :)<br />
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Chris xxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-56488844060989363782014-03-31T20:19:00.002+01:002014-03-31T21:59:00.036+01:00Wow... Is it really that long since I blogged!<h2>
<span style="font-size: small;"><em>18 months... and it seems like yesterday. It seems quite unreal that so much time can have passed since I have done any real paper crafting.</em></span> </h2>
My obsessions with drawing and painting took over for a long while, followed by a lot of hard graft trying to get my jungle of a garden to be an oasis of calm (I can dream... it's a long way from that still...lol) and somewhere nice to sit (which is a bit more of a reality). I weeded and dug over the whole garden and resowed grass seed so it will be green this year . Added some plants and now I also have a rockery.<br />
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Following that I spent months re-decorating the house, but then was really poorly from the later part of the year and unable to do much at all, in fact I was barely able to look after <em>myself.</em> Thankfully I have really great friends who stepped in and helped me to recover.<br />
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I took it easy from then on and a lot of my time has been taken up on Facebook (which some of you will know) where I've shared bits and pieces of my art and journaling and my rekindled passion for crochet. I thought about blogging a lot but it just seemed too much like hard work, anyway now I am getting lots better, I feel that I want to join you peeps again and catch up with all my lovely blogging pals and all the wonderful creations I have missed. <br />
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Art journaling heals and crochet calms the nerves :)<br />
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So here we are and looking forward to good times ahead :)<br />
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Well I'm behind with the 29faces challenge.... nothing new there then lol... I just don't know where the hours or days are disappearing too. Someone is stealing them... I swear they are!!</div>
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I've done the creating... but there hasn't been enough time to blog everyday, I think I just get so involved with my art that I lose conscious hours.</div>
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1st a journal page... girl coloured with pencils over clear gesso...</div>
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2nd a pencil sketch which I have to admit to having started earlier in the year, was completed.....<br />
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Next a bit of whimsy and acrylic paint... I love changing mediums... jack of all trades... master of none :)<br />
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Finally a watercolour face which I so enjoyed doing but I'm still learning to control the water.<br />
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I have to say that I honestly admire those naturally talented portrait artists in any medium who don't have to work too hard to be able to paint a likeness... I am moving forward but I have to practice and practice and practice and I feel like I am YEARS away from being content with what I have achieved or maybe I am just too much of a perfectionist and am aiming for the stars :)</div>
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Chris xxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-42075901925432412452012-09-03T18:38:00.001+01:002012-09-03T18:39:14.784+01:0029 Faces in SeptemberIt's that time again <a href="http://ilove2paint.blogspot.co.uk/p/29-faces-sept.html" target="_blank">Ayala is doing another 29 faces challenge</a>. I loved the last one so I just hope I can keep up this month and manage to blog every face. I can but try :) I will share a mixture of styles of faces depending on what time I have available. I hope you will join me. Here are my first three cos I've had company staying and haven't had chance to blog until today.<br />
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I decided to use up some backgrounds that I already had done in my journal for the first two faces because that made them quick and easy :)<br />
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The third face is a WIP and a bit of an accident... well not the face... just the flowers. I somehow got a mark on the paper when I was drawing which would not erase at all. It was a bit high to turn into a beauty spot but as I'd done so much work I didn't want to leave it looking awful so I drew flowers. Not sure if I like them but it's better than a horrible mark and I did like the face. Lessons learned... rest on a blank sheet of paper in future.</div>
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I can't wait to hang them all on my wall when they are finished.</div>
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I want more than four to put on my art wall but didn't have any more box canvases so I have tried a different style inspired by Dina's grungy girls. I've done this one on stiff paper and I'm hoping I can mount it on some wood before hanging.</div>
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Chris xxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-56583241870633101982012-08-12T11:35:00.001+01:002012-08-18T22:55:54.298+01:00Out of the Journal-week 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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This girlie changes with the light... or maybe I'm just not that good with the camera!! <br />
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Anyhoo I don't know if she is completely finished because for some reason I have an urge to throw some glitter on her... I just can't make up my mind... decisions, decisions, decisions... what do you think.<br />
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-45599952251471357782012-08-07T19:54:00.002+01:002012-08-07T19:56:02.591+01:00Out of the Journal .... week 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Wow is it THAT long since I last blogged.... where do the weeks go!! They days are going so quickly that at this rate I am going to be in my 70's before I know it lol. Anyhoo I am joining in with Dina's new challenge <a href="http://dinastamps.typepad.com/ponderings/2012/08/out-of-the-journal-week-one.html" target="_blank">here.</a> called Out of The Journal. I'm a bit late though because I started a canvas and then totally took a wobbly when it just wouldn't go how I wanted it to... well it turned out to be a happy accident (love those) because I ended up with something I love even more.</div>
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The canvas is 8" x 8" and is destined for my kitchen when I have finished the other three for the rest of August. I already started the others because I kept jumping from one to the other when my mojo wasn't happening.</div>
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I used lots of paper layers and acrylic paint and I'm not sure I will paint faces on uneven background after this because I really found them to be a challenge in more ways than one. I hadn't intended to do faces at all.... I wanted to do something abstract but it just wasn't happening so I guess my love of drawing and painting faces just keeps getting in the way.</div>
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You can see more of the texture in this close up... not easy to capture with my camera but I hope you can see what I mean.<br />
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Chris xxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-7559001224340780872012-07-04T18:04:00.002+01:002012-07-04T18:05:19.936+01:00Summer of Color- weeks 3 and 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Week 3 is Baseball nut and I decided to have a little play with vellum as it is ages since I did anything like this and it was so relaxing... I really enjoyed it so may just have to do some more some time soon. It was coloured on the reverse with normal felt pens.</div>
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Week 4 is Strawberry Lemonade and it just had to be something cute with a gorgeous name like that and delicate colours. So say hello to the sleep princess.... am often in need of her when I can't sleep... maybe she can give sleep wishes away...lol<br />
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Chris xxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-47508492798108666192012-06-22T17:17:00.000+01:002012-06-22T17:17:24.703+01:00Summer of colour.... week 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Anyway this is Hannah and I am sure she would like Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream as much as I do.<br />
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Chris xxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-77855123137391944132012-06-12T15:46:00.001+01:002012-06-12T15:48:26.082+01:00June guys challengeAfter the 29 faces challenge Ayala decided to do a <a href="http://ilove2paint.blogspot.co.uk/p/june-guys.html" target="_blank">June guys challenge</a> and despite my better judgement I decided to join in. I don't DO male faces as a rule but I thought in for a penny in for a pound lol and I also gave myself another challenge to stretch me further in only allowing myself to use a pen. Total glutton for punishment. So no rubbing out... what you see is what you get ha ha.<br />
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BOY (pardon the pun...lol) it was harder than I thought and I don't know that I would fancy kissing either of these dudes but they may be to someones taste.<br />
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Maybe the sketches will get better as the month goes on...but don't hold your breath :)<br />
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Chris xxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-73626976270269631442012-06-11T17:50:00.000+01:002012-06-11T17:50:37.955+01:00Summer of Color 2... Rainbow Sherbet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Then I remembered that I had started a large mixed media canvas ages ago that had similar colours so I ran and got it and decided to finish it. Well I think it's finished but I could always change my mind later. I've turned it round so many times to decide which way up it should be and I still haven't made my mind up. It didn't photograph too well but it is really bonny close up :)<br />
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an ARTIST!! I recently created this journal page after a prompt from Dyan Reaveley on her<a href="http://dyan-reaveley.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/i-am-artist.html" target="_blank"> blog here </a>and it really got me thinking. When DO you call yourself an Artist. Friends and family sometimes say to me Wow you are a great Artist and while I am chuffed when they say that... internally I think.... is the reason they say that because I am doing something they don't do or just because they think something I create is pretty.</div>
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I have always done arty stuff especially since my teenage years but have never thought of myself as an Artist. Yes I can paint, draw, and create something pleasing to the eye but is that enough. I do 'art' just for myself... I don't sell my work (maybe cos I don't think people will buy it...lol). I wouldn't do commissions because I hate working under pressure... takes the fun out of art totally for me. I have no portfolio and I only like to create art that is pleasing to ME... I have no formal training other than what I did at school and later during college training to be a hairdresser where the art was specific to my chosen course.... so do I call myself an Artist........</div>
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well I've decided .... HELL YEAH!!! Why? ...... because I love my art... everything I create comes from the heart, it tells a story about me and what comes from within. Whether someone else likes it ...or not... doesn't matter. It is about me!! I am an Artist... because <i>I feel like one</i> when I have my pencils, paintbrushes or paper and glue sticks in hand. When I finish something, a sketch, a painting, a journal page... I am filled with a sense of gratitude that I have been given this gift to express myself and it makes me HAPPY. </div>
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Art hugs me during dark days of depression which lots of us Artists suffer from... it carries me through bad times like nothing and no-one else could. It is my own personal saviour and friend and makes my happy days happier still. One day I may try to sell my art and maybe someone will buy it and maybe just maybe I will feel like a professional Artist... but until then I AM AN ARTIST in my own mind... and that's all that matters.</div>
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Now that I have stopped doing faces for a little while I thought I would go back to my journalling and other arty stuff so that I could get messy and inky and just let myself go. I just luuuuuuurve colour... the brighter the better... it makes me happy and a page full of it is just divine. </div>
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My op was successful and although I have a mouth full of stitches and look a bit like a chipmunk lol... I am glad it is all over and I am recovering quickly. Thank you for all of your well wishes xxx</div>
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This page was made with dylusions spray inks, oil pastels, some magazine cut outs and lots of doodling... Heaven! I missed the messiness.<br />
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Wow it has been a busy month but I am happy that I have managed to complete the challenge and do my 29 faces. It is lovely for me to look back and see what I have achieved and I will probably continue to do faces each week but I will be having a little break for a while and will be doing some other crafty stuff instead. I have missed the stamping and sticking etc etc so watch this space.</div>
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Off to hospital for surgery in the morning and I am sooooo scared but worse is the fact that I probably won't feel like doing anything for a few days .... so wish me luck and I will be back asap.</div>
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Face #23 is a little more childlike than most of my faces and I have to say I love her... she is MY personal favourite out of all of the sketches I have done. I managed to do her hair properly AND give her eyelashes, so completed in every way which makes me happier than you will know...lol</div>
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Face #25 is another pencil sketch that I coloured digitally. She came together nicely and I am getting quicker thanks to this challenge. Hey if you don't use it... you lose it (that's the saying isn't it)...it's true in many ways but I have found that the less I draw the harder it becomes next time I pick up my sketchbook. So this challenge has been wonderful for me because I feel that each day I have pushed myself further and now I'm not putting my sketches aside half finished to go back to on another occasion.<br />
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Thanks for looking and I will be back to share my final 4 faces tomorrow. I won't be posting for a few days after that as I am going into hospital for day surgery so I hope you have enjoyed this months art... as much as I have x<br />
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Chris xxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-4332445986806575632012-05-28T16:50:00.001+01:002012-05-28T16:50:30.833+01:0029 Faces.... face#20.face#21 and face#22<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oooooh I am on the home stretch.. only two more days to go and I can give my eyes and hands a bit of a rest lol. The first is an ink sketch a bit different from my normal stuff...coloured digitally. It takes me so long to do a pencil sketch sometimes that I had to have a break and do something quick.</div>
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This one was a pencil sketch... coloured digitally... I just don't have time to paint manually as well as the sketching and besides digital colouring is cool and fun.<br />
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Finally for today I'm sharing another coloured doodle face.<br />
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Thanks for visiting and thanks for all your lovely comments... I appreciate every one.<br />
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I won't waffle on just share with you a little about each face.... Face#17 is hand drawn and coloured digitally.....<br />
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Face#18 is painted with watercolour on top of a Dylusions ink background....<br />
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Wow where has the day gone.... it's almost over and I nearly forgot to blog my faces for today. I blame it on the sunshine... I'm not complaining mind, it is glorious being warm without waiting for a hot flush. I don't mind having my own personal central heating but it doesn't switch on until inconvenient times... usually when I'm trying to sleep. The joys of middle age ho hum.</div>
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Today I'm sharing a journal page and although I usually write somewhere on my pages I just couldn't seem to on this one. I think I'm afraid to spoil it as I really like it for a change.</div>
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This sketch is one I started a while ago but didn't like so I've changed her eyes, nose, mouth and hair... okay almost all of her lol... but now she appeals to me more.<br />
See you tomorrow... think I am going to have to share 3 a day from now on cos I am running out of days and still a lot of faces to do....oooer<br />
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Chris xxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-38362955062201946962012-05-25T17:15:00.001+01:002012-05-25T17:23:11.966+01:00Paint Party Friday and 29 Faces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I laughed so hard when I finished this journal page (and face#14). I normally paint in my journal on my knee and don't always realise I've gone wrong until I stand back.... that'll teach me. I really need to practice profiles... ooops Mick Jagger comes to mind.... not a good look for a girl lol</div>
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Along with <a href="http://ilove2paint.blogspot.co.uk/p/29-faces-may.html" target="_blank">29 faces</a> I'm linking up with <a href="http://www.paintpartyfriday.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Paint Party Friday</a> today.<br />
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Chris xChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-16944321301058384492012-05-24T11:04:00.002+01:002012-05-24T11:05:16.751+01:0029 Faces... Face#11 and Face#12<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Well here we are again..... more faces and a happy Chris because the sun is shining and oh doesn't it make you feel good! It's wonderful to have all the windows open and fresh air flowing through the house. Almost makes me feel like doing housework (not...lol) I'd rather pull my teeth out with pliers.... ooooh maybe not then.</div>
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Okay so Face#11 was hand drawn but I coloured her digitally to give her some nice colour.</div>
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Face#12 is one I started a while back but didn't like so I did a bit of erasing and gave her new eyes and some hair. Not the best hairstyle but the paper wasn't good after the rubbing out. Serves me right for doing it in a cheap sketch book. Still she looks better than I thought she'd end up so hey ho.<br />
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Back again tomorrow... hope to see you then.<br />
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Chris xxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466807787737426201noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153367684748155000.post-60385847959895452112012-05-23T14:04:00.000+01:002012-05-23T14:04:23.231+01:0029 faces.. Face#9 and Face#10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Well I resorted to a quick pen sketch for Face#9 cos I still have a lot of catching up to do and the month is disappearing quicker than I can blink... blimey where do the hours go!</div>
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Face#10 is another in my journal and I'm not really happy with the page as I seem to have spoiled it with misplaced writing... so I will have to have another play with it later and maybe add something to balance it a bit better. Still there is no wrong in journalling is there... I guess any play is good play.<br />
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The pencils have been back out again and I actually gave this little girlie hair... I struggle with it but I'm getting better. Everyday is a learning curve. Hey I've even started doing eyelashes but not on this one. Watch this space..lol </div>
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Now although I love my pencil sketches.. doodling is fun too so I doodled this face and once again coloured it in pixlr. </div>
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I do love these colours they are among my favourite of all time... totally yummy!</div>
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I am loving the 29 Faces challenge and it's certainly keeping me on my toes. It is also keeping my drawing hand flexed and helping me to improve every day. Although I'm sure there will be days when I don't have the time or inclination to do something intense and I will have bad sketch days as well as good ones.</div>
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I have a confession to make in that I haven't started each sketch from scratch ... some are ones I've started previously and not completed BUT I have done a lot of work on each one each day, some altered unrecognisably from how they started out... so I hope you'll forgive me.</div>
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It was time for something a bit cuter with the sketch above... and no hair makes life a lot easier too lol.</div>
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I moved on to colour then and although I drew this little lady by hand I then coloured her digitally. If you haven't used <a href="http://www.pixlr.com/" target="_blank">Pixlr </a>before then give it a go... it is very similar to Photoshop but free. Use it for your photographs or/and art... it is cool. You do have to be online to use it but that's only a little blip considering it's 100% cheaper than Photoshop. whoohoo</div>
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Ooops I got the pictures the wrong way round... I'm having a senior day lol. Okay so face4 comes first and I think I must have been thinking a bit of mystic meg when I drew this one. She's a bit wacky but I get the feeling she wants to tell my fortune ha ha. Wonder what she would have in store for me!! Hope it would be good. Maybe she's a good omen cos for the first time EVER I got a refund from the taxman this week...whoohoo way to go...I officially LOVE the taxman....well at least for now.</div>
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Face3 is another I completed in my journal inspired by Dyan Reaveley and Dina Wakely.. I used fabby Dylusions spray inks again with watercolour pencils . </div>
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