29 Faces - Day 7: Eyeballs McGillicuddy

I wasn't feeling too well last night so I'm a day behind with my 29 faces, I'll try to catch up this week.

Today's face belongs to Eyeballs McGillicuddy:

Face 7

Eyeballs McGillicuddy

2.5 x 3.5

graphite on bristol

Here's a link to the other 29 Faces in May particpants: OTHER PARTICIPANTS

29 Faces - Face 4, Jellybean

Here's today's Face, a fuzzy little kitty who I just realized might be our next cat (who will most likely be named Jellybean).

I'm pretty happy with how Jellybean turned out, although the graphite can be messy even after being sprayed with fixative a couple of times.

Face 4

Jellybean

3.5 x 2.5

graphite on bristol

Here's a link to the other particpants: OTHER PARTICIPANTS

29 Faces Part 2, Face 3

How's that for a catchy post title?   It's almost as clever as the name of this drawing!

Face 3

Little Pinkish Puppy

2.5 x 3.5

Mixed media on Bristol

Here's a link to the other particpants: OTHER PARTICIPANTS

29 Faces Challenge - Day 26

For today's face I'm showing something different - ink and watercolor in a much looser style.    I was (once again) looking through my under-utilized art supplies and settled on my rapidograph and watercolors for tonight's face.  I used to draw with my rapidograph all the time, I liked the loose feeling it gave my work.  Watercolors are something I've always struggled with, so this time I decided to try a different approach.

Face 26

1.5 x 3

ink & watercolor

I really enjoyed making these (I did a couple more which I may use for upcoming faces), and if they're well received I might try working a little larger in this style as well.

I just realized that I've been neglecting to include the link to this challenge - sorry!   I've been using the new posting format here, it's not as easy anymore to pull stuff from previous posts:

29 Faces Challenge - Day 25

Only four more days of this challenge, I'm going to miss it!

For todays facial offering, I present:

Graphite on Bristol

2.5 x 3.5

Owley Johnson, again!

After seeing this on the computer I notice a few things that need to be touched up.  That's what I get for finishing this one by the light of "Hoarding, Buried Alive" on the TV!

29 Faces Challenge - Day 24, Monster Number 9

Hey!  Here I am!  Look, over here!

Face 24

graphite on bristol

2.5 x 3.5

Monster Number 9

Monster number 9 looks suspiciously like a woman I work with, only with horns.  What's up with that?

29 Faces Challenge - day 16

Here's my face for Day 16, a Bear on a Stick.

Face 16

Graphite on Bristol

2.5" x 3.5"

29 Faces Challenge - days 9 and 10

Here are my two Faces for days 9 and 10, later on I'll post day 11 and be all caught up!

Another thing I like about this challenge is that it's inspiring me to use some materials I never seem to get around to using. This first one is pastel on Stonehenge paper:

Face 9

Maybe he's really nice, but I don't think I'd want to see "Face 9" coming at me in the dark!

Next is another experiment, it's oil on YUPO, another of my favorite surfaces on which to paint, and also brought to you by the same folks who bring you Stonehenge paper!

Face 10

Face 10 is very enlarged, it's actually about 1.5 x 1.5 inches.

29 Faces Challenge - Days 7 and 8

Two more pieces for the challenge, I'm almost caught up!

First, it's everyone's favorite Chipmunk, complete with lunch-pail and diaper so you all can stop worrying now:

Face 7 - Lunchbox!

I haven't been mentioning the sizes here, but most of my 29 faces have been ACEO sized or smaller - this one's a standard 2.5 x 3.5 card size. It's graphite on Stonehenge paper.

This next one's much smaller - about 1" x 1.5". I used Genesis Heat Set Oils on a little wooden panel:

Face 8 - Future Violet

This is a portrait of my daughter Violet in a few years, wearing her BBG hat that I think she's going to have.

29 Faces Challenge - days 3 and 4

OK I have two more for today, I'll keep posting double until I'm caught up with these.

Face 3 - Sea Monster

I didn't see anything about just doing human faces, so I hope these animal ones are ok. After all, a face is a face, or so they say. Right?

Face 4 - Alverd

Both of these are just graphite on rag drawing paper. Sometimes I forget how much I like just drawing with a regular pencil!

Here's the link to the challenge again, I realized that I bungled it up yesterday but I think I figured it out this time:

29 Faces Challenge - Late to the party

I joined this challenge a couple of days late, the object is to create a face every day throughout the month of February. The real challenge for me won't be in creating the faces but actually updating this blog every day for the rest of the month! I don't think I've had that many posts in total the whole time I've been here!

Anyway, since I'm starting late, I have two to post today:

Face 1

This one's technically a WIP, I had started her as yet another experiment in my ongoing struggle with acrylics. I wanted to try something completely tonal and then maybe add color later, or maybe not - decisiveness is not one of my strong points!

Face 2

This girl is just graphite on an interestingly flecked charcoal paper, something I would normally not use. My issue with this paper is the placement of some of those flecks., it kind of makes her face look blotchy and I see some things I need to fix, but oh well.

Here's a link to the challenge:

Another Owl!

Also for Nibblefest:

Petunia
2.5 x 3.5
Graphite on Stonehenge paper