Bye-bye for a little while

Too much is happening around here for me to try to do any blogging.

I am going to take a time off for a month or so. Many of you have my

email so if you need to get me you can. Also, the email is on my blog.

I enjoyed the 29 faces challenge and getting to see all the wonderful,

diverse paintings and drawings. It was like visiting a museum.

Lots of mine will be made into greetings cards to sell at the 

church bazaar in November. Thanks for everyone who commented

on my posts. It is nice to get an email "thank you, Faye" to my comments,

but it is so much nicer to know you have actually visited my posts.

Paint Party Friday - September 27, 2013

This could be my #30 for the #29 Faces but I am

posting this for my Paint Party Friday entry. I loosely 

used a method I learned about on Anja's blog. I couldn't

get my white gel pen to work on top of Neocolor so

I used the black outlines. I would like for you to see

the 29 Faces I made for September HERE.

Alpha made a painting by using my Grandmother's photo

as her model. Check out what she did:

ALPHA'S BLOG

Faces #25 - #29

Finally, the last 5 faces for the 29 Faces Challenge, a few days early.

Face 25 looks like she knows a secret.

 Face 26, I believe, has a chip on her shoulder. She looks a bit haughty.

 I like the toddler for Face #27.

 I used a magazine ad as a launchpad for Face #28.

She actually looks like someone I went to school with for 12 years.

 And the final one #29 was also the result of looking at a magazine ad.

Faces #18 - 24

Here are my entries for 29 Faces and for Paint Party Friday

#18 My Grandma's photo altered with Photoshop Elements filters.

#19 This is the one I had leaves all around. I decided to color her with water soluble crayons.

#20 Just a sketch. His mustache didn't turn out too well.

#21 Another sketch

#22 And here is the sketch colored in Photoshop Elements.

#23 This was colored in watercolors.

#24 This was colored in watercolors.

More Faces

 Here are four more faces. My sister called last night and we talked about an hour. The black and white sketches here are my phone doodles. I later colored them via Photoshop Elements. I am counting these as my faces 14, 15, 16, 17 for 29 Faces.

PPF and Faces 12 and 13

This is a firehouse in Vacaville CA, where the Somewhere to Sketch folks

visited around town earlier and sketched exciting spots, and some mundane places.

Next the scenes were from London England and included Buckingham Palace,

St. Paul's Cathedral, lots of red buses, some gorgeous scenery and interesting people.

This is Astor Hyde Park in London.

The plane is almost ready to leave for Paris. If you love Paris landmarks, go visit 

Somewhere to Sketch. Better yet, find a spot on Google maps in Paris and 

sketch it for yourself. The more the merrier.

Two more faces for 29 Faces Challenge

Face 12

This one was sketched in waterproof pen and then colored with watercolors.

Face 13

                              This one was just painted in watercolors, no pencils and no pens.

All these are being entered in the Paint Party Friday Challenge.

29 Faces #9, #10, #11

Three different kinds of faces. Face 9 is colored pencils sketch.  Face 10 is a pen sketch I colored with watercolors. Face 11 is Li'l Redhead, a character I created after my granddaughter when she was a child. I have been doing Li'l Redhead in various actions for many years. (Granddaughter is 24.)

All of these entries were done today. I think posting in bunches is easier on poster and viewer.

these are for 29 Faces challenge.

Face #9

Face #11

Face #10

So-Artful Challenge

This ox-eye daisy was a watercolor I did a while back.

I think it is pretty minimalist and is a single flower, the

two requirements for the So Artful Challenge.

29 Faces #8

OK. I'm cheating a little. Well, not really, but this is not

up to my usual standards. Give me some slack. This is

the weekend.  I hope to do another face tomorrow but

this may be it till Monday.  This is simply a piece of watercolor

paper with stripes of color. I drew the face and surrounded her

with leaves I had stamped on cardstock and cutout. My 

queen of the forest is my #8 for 29 Faces Challenge.

29 Faces #7 and Paint Party Friday

This is being entered in two challenges:

29 Faces

Paint Party Friday

I found I had a small scrap of acrylic paper so I decided

to do a quick sketch with drawing pens. My oil pastels

were sitting there, unused because I sure don't know what

to do with them, but I tried. I used a little olive oil to spread

the colors around. I said it was a quick sketch - about 15 minutes.

Tomorrow is a busy day in and out of the house so it may be 

Saturday before I get to visit everyone.

Note: Please take off the captcha thing. I waste a lot of time

trying to figure them out when I could be off visiting someone's

beautiful artwork. Also, if you use Google+,  please provide a way 

for those of us who do not want to be in Google+ to leave you a comment.

29 Faces #6

Here is my watercolor of an native American girl, 

who will be my entry for 29 Faces,  #6.

I couldn't get her hair to get any darker.

Word Art Wednesday

Here is my entry for Word Art Wednesday.

The background is one of my oil paintings.

If you are looking for my 29 Faces, scroll down.

29 Faces #4 and #5

I'm trying my hand at one of my first male faces.

I used a photo but it doesn't look enough like it to

show. I've got a long way to go,  see. This is my

#4 face for 29 Faces Challenge.

And here is a grandma to go with the grandpa above.

She is done in watercolor pencils and water soluble

crayons (Neocolor II) whereas he was done using

my Winsor & Newton watercolors. This is my

#5 face for 29 Faces Challenge.

29 Faces #3

Here is my really rough sketch of a flyfisher girl in a trout stream.

This is my face for 29 Faces. I tried to visit 100% of the entrants.

Sorry, I can't get into the comment section if you use Google+.

And even after cataract surgery and subsequent 20-20 vision, I

have trouble reading those Captcha things.

29 Faces #2

This was done in watercolors on cheap watercolor paper.

This is my 29 Faces #2 entry.

29 Faces #1

I'm going to try to do Martha's 29 Faces Challenge.

This was a challenge because I just sketched onto  acrylic

paint paper and then painted in water soluble oil paints. Using

these paints for portraits is new to me. I only have 6 colors so

I had to do a lot of mixing.