29 Faces Challenge - day 14 Bostie Love

Won't you be my Valentine?

Please?

For Day 14 of the challenge I was a little short on time, so I figured I'd give pastel another go. I drew this Boston Terrier as an mixed combo of our two departed Bosties, Messrs Bone-f and Wiggles. I made it into a Valentine because a) it's Valentines day (still for about 44 minutes) and b) I love and miss those two little guys.

This is an ACEO, pastel on Stonehenge.

29 Faces Challenge - day 13

Here for day 13 I've painted Nuwitness, a little white cat we used to have.

Face 13

Oil on YUPO

1.5" x 2"

I'm not really happy with how this came out - it's not a very interesting painting, but oh well. I guess they can't all be winners.

29 Faces Challenge - day 12

I actually had another piece to post for today, it was oil on YUPO again but I guess the oils take longer to dry on YUPO than on other surfaces & I couldn't scan it comfortably.

So continuing with my YUPO experimenting, I tried Genesis heat set oils on YUPO and came up with this little fellow:

Face 12

1" x 1"

I didn't plan this one out much at all as I had no idea how the YUPO would react when baked, but it survived! I think I'm going to do more of this combo.

29 Faces Challenge - day 11

All caught up! Yay!

Face 11

little bluish bird

This is another tiny painting, it's about 1.5 x 1.5ish, acrylic on YUPO. I think I'm going to do more with YUPO, I really like it!

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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 5 and 6

Today for my 29 Faces Challenge, I present two WIP's:

Chubby Bunny Holding Something

Lonely Panda

Both of these are mixed media on Stonehenge paper.

One thing about this challenge is that I'm not going to have time to write clever stories for each piece, it's all I can do to get them posted here.

On another note,

Does anyone who uses Blogspot know how to stop it from automatically underlining any text I write after inserting an image? This is driving me nuts!

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:

"Numbers" (a Lunchbox painting)

Numbers

So Lunchbox went for a stroll in the woods the other day and happened upon a nest of wild baby numbers! In this painting you can see him wracking his little brains, trying to remember the rules. You see, I was trying to teach him the dangers of the forest, and had recently read him the “Field Guide to Little-Known and Seldom-Seen Numbers” which has a whole section on what to do if you encounter a nest of wild baby numbers in their natural habitat. There’s a lot of info, but here’s the gist:

• Cute as they may be, do NOT attempt to touch or otherwise engage these creatures
• The mother is more than likely lurking nearby, and if she feels threatened, look out!
• Avoid eye contact and back away slowly; make no sudden movements.
• If the mother comes after you anyway, run like hell!

Remember, wild baby numbers do NOT make good pets. They may be cute now, but they grow into adults. As with most things, the bigger they get, the cuter they ain’t. And what would you feed them anyway??

Anyway, back to Lunchbox – fortunately all ended well and he got home safely (whew!). After all, when you have your lunch-pail and your diaper, what more do you need? Certainly not numbers!