Genesis

Once again, I'm putting myself out there in my art experiences and trying something new!!!  I wanted to draw and then paint a face!

YouTube is my go-to place for learning new techniques.  I watched several videos on how to draw faces and then paint them.  My two favorites  are Dina Wakley's video on how to draw a face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2YwcmFTd8g
and Tamara Laporte of Willowing's video on how to draw and paint a face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6vsqMl9JU&index=5&list=LLbXd40EdpkdhNGG7VrCuKRw

I had drawn a face 2 other times and was learning to improve my technique.  Again, it's a learn as you go process! 

I am going to be posting tons of pictures, so please bear with me.

I used a 12x12 piece of cardboard and covered it in gesso. I used a regular pencil and drew out her face and then used my watercolor pencil to shade  her face.

 

 

I thought her eyes were too close together, so I changed them a bit.

I used flesh colored paint and painted her face.  I used neon pink, white and red mixed together to paint her lips.  I used white to paint her eyes.

I am loving a good turquoise color right now, so I used Island Green to paint her eyes.

I then used Coral for the darker shaded areas of her face.

When I started off drawing a face, I wasn't really sure how she was going to turn out, so I didn't want to do it in my art journal, in case I messed up!  After seeing how she was coming along and being pleased with the results, I was sad she wasn't in my journal!  I was sharing her with my best friend, Shelby, and she told me I could figure out some way to affix her in my journal.  

I had the brilliant, if I don't say so myself, idea to cut her face out and glue it on my journal page.  I wasn't thrilled with how thick her neck looked, so it also gave me the opportunity to trim her neck down! LOL!

This is after I had glued her down.  

I drew her hair out and was ready to paint that in.  Well, she sat for a few days like this, because I wasn't sure how I wanted to do her hair. 

Now, I have to admit something here... I have always wanted to do some purple color in my own hair!!!!!  The bravest I have gotten is going ginger (red)!  So, I decided to live vicariously through my girl! ;)

Since purple is one of my favorite colors, I have at least 5 different colors of purple paint in my collection.  I used them all!  

I even added some neon pink, white and glitter purple!  I wanted to add some more fun, so I did a streak of the Island Green color that I used to paint her eyes.

I took some dictionary pages and ripped them up and covered the white space at the top of the two pages.  

I then took white paint and my brayer and ran it over the dictionary pages.  I also finger painted some white where I thought it needed more.

I then used my new Crafter's Workshop 6x6 butterfly stencil to make this gorgeous thing.  I sponged the black on and then did the two sides in Island Green and Neon Pink colors.  The paint seeped under the stencil and messed up the pattern some, but I still love how it turned out.

I wrote the Bible verse Proverbs 31:25 on the edge of her hair.  I used a white gel pen, but it wasn't dark enough so I went over it with a white-out pen from the dollar store.

I purposely chose the dictionary pages with strength and dignity on them and made those stand out right above those two words!

Here is a close up of her face.

I decided to name her Genesis, because Genesis means the origin of something or a beginning.  She was my first face to ever paint, so she was my beginning.  ;) 

Thanks for reading!