Trying to catch up on my weekly art challenge posts. Our grandbaby is home from the hospital, my hand is healing from my hand surgery (my dominate hand, of course!), so I'm trying to get settled into creating again! Although, in the 4 days our grandbaby has been home, we've babysat two days and the other two days, I had to take her or her mother to routine check-ups! I'm not complaining about the babysitting - she is such a joy! She's so quiet, I can almost forget she's here! I'm hoping as our daughter and her boyfriend adjust to being new parents, things will settle down some. However, they may be moving in with us in a month, if they cannot find another apartment! LOL! life is always changing!
This week, I still haven't gotten back to my painting. I did do another drawing from Jane Davenport's book:
Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces. I had started the first couple of exercises before all the excitement with a new baby (see posts
here). The next exercise is called "Grand Scale". Instead of the small, simple "Draw Happy" faces, this exercise scaled the drawing to a full page. She goes into more detail of placement of facial features and shape of the face. This is my result:
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| Face, 7" x 10", pencil and 0.005 black Sakura pen on mixed-media paper. |
I like the facial features, although the eyes are too large and too close together. The hair and neck need some work, but those weren't the focus of this exercise. I do pretty well doing portraits from a photograph (I've actually done commissions in oils, acrylics, and colored pencil), but to draw a portrait without a photo to look at is such a challenge for me. I'm hoping Jane's book (and I also bought her video recently) will help me to overcome these difficulties.
I hope for Week 8 to be able to finally start painting in my art journal for the
Documented Life Project 2015 (DLP) with
Art to the 5th Academy, that I originally set out to do for my weekly art challenge this year! I'll see what this week holds!
Keep creating!
Lynnita
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