Fabulous Faces – Workshop Part 1

I enrolled in Tamara Laporte's  Fabulous Faces Workshop.  Super excited! It is a self-paced course, covering many aspects of portraiture in a comprehensive, encouraging way. Tam is a fantastic teacher.  Week 1 is all about drawing & shading a front facing portrait in graphite. Here is my first attempt.

Summer of Color: Week 6 (Final)

This week's colour palette is:    1 Orange + 1 Orange + 1 Blue

For this challenge I used:

Dylusions Paint: Squeezed orange

Prismacolor Pencil: Cadmium Orange Hue

Dylusions Paint: Vibrant Turquoise 

Prepared journal with layer of Gesso
Then added my first layer of  paint

Preparing Background for next layer

Sketched on design in pencil.
Added turquoise paint to background with a baby wipe

Oulined & added text:

You are precious in every way
the sunshine in my day
the joy in my soul
and the love of my life
~~Mom ~~

Added texture with stamps, paint, ink.

Finished Product

Summer of Color: Week 5

This week's colour palette is:    1 Green + 1 Green + 1 Pink

For this challenge I used:

Dylusions: Fresh Lime

Dylusions: Cut Grass

Dylusions:Bubblegum Pink

Background Paint

Painting Flowers & Hearts

Adding Texture & Text

finished product

Summer of Color: Week 4

This week's colour palette is:    1 Red + 1 Red + 1 Metallic

For this challenge I used:

Dylusions Postbox Red

Gelato: Cherry Red

Inka Gold

Background Paint

Adding Texture

Dylusions Stamps

Text & more texture.

Summer of Color: Week 3

This week's colour palette is:    1 Purple + 1 Purple + 1 Yellow

For this challenge I used:

Adirondack Dauber: Cool Peri

Dylusions: Crushed Grape

Dylusions: Lemon Zest

Sketching face

Adding Color

Background Prep

Summer of Color: Week 2

This week's colour palette is:    1 Pink + 1 Pink + 1 Orange

For this challenge I used:

Hydrangea Pink
(Ceramoat)

Bubble Gum Pink
(Dylusions)

Squeezed Orange
Dylusions

Background paint

Lacie Bloom Girl Stamp

Inked Quote & Background texture