A new Look at an Old Painting

There's an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:

A right time for birth and another for death,

A right time to plant and another to reap,

A right time to kill and another to heal,

A right time to destroy and another to construct,

A right time to cry and another to laugh,

A right time to lament and another to cheer,

A right time to make love and another to abstain,

A right time to embrace and another to part,

A right time to search and another to count your losses,

A right time to hold on and another to let go,

A right time to rip out and another to mend,

A right time to shut up and another to speak up,

A right time to love and another to hate,

A right time to wage war and another to make peace.

from Ecclesiastes 3

“When you part from your friend,

you grieve not;

For that which you love most in him

may be clearer in his absence,

as the mountain to the climber

is clearer from the plain.” 

― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Church Bazaar

The long awaited fall bazaar at our church was held today. I have been making cards all year for this event. Sometimes I'd use whatever I had painted for a challenge to be the front of the card. Some I bought stick-ons from the Dollar Store. Some I did a watercolor front. Here are some that did not sell. I noticed that most of the Christmas ones went fast. I will try next year to do more Christmasy ones.

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.