Another round robin painting party!

We had so much fun painting on each other pictures we got together again on Friday to do it again.

Here's Mine

Here's Sara's

Here's Maggie's

Here's Marie's

Then my other daughter Amelia came by  so she and Maggie worked on each other's paintings.

Here's Maggie's

Here's Amelia's

Maggie's 2nd one.

Amelia's 2nd one.

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Mixed Media Club Project

I'm in a mixed media club that tries to meet every 3rd Thursday. It's a lot of fun getting together and playing. At the beginning of the year we decided to do the lessons from Life Book 2016 together when we meet. Today's project was inspired from Week 4 by Annie Hamman and from a round robin sketch project that I did with my sister and our daughters. You can read about that Here and Here. When we got together today there were 4 of us. On 140 lb watercolor paper we each did a basic sketch of a face and the 1st layer of paint for the faces. Then we started the round robin part. The rule was that you could do anything to the other paintings. We set the timer for 5 minutes and went at it. When time was up everyone stopped. We did take a couple of minutes to dry what we did with heat guns. Then we switched to someone else's painting. Set the timer for 5 minutes at went at it again. After switching several times we each went to our original project to finish it. It was interesting watching how different we all worked. The big thing that I got out of it was to loosen up in what I did. Here are some pictures of all 4 paintings in a few of the stages.

Here's Mine

Something that I like to do after painting is to add some shading and details with colored pencils.
We used Liquitex paints and the colored pencils do not work well over it, So over my whole painting I put a thin layer of clear gesso. Then used the colored pencils.

Here's Sara's

Here's Maggie's

And Here's Marie's

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A work in Progress

This is a spread that I have just put something down over a long time.

I really don't care to draw over such businesses. I have a hard time seeing my drawn lines. So I drew the face on tissue paper. In doing this I found it was easier to get the face symmetrical by folding the tissue paper over and trace the features from the other side.

Before gluing on the page I brushed water around the image. This made it very easy to tear the excess away. 

After it had dried, I used color pencils on the face and paint on the back ground.

I think she isn't finished yet. But I am thrilled with the beginning.

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Lifebook 2016

This spread was inspired by Ivy Newport's lesson from Lifebook 2016 Week 2.

Radiant 2: Art Journals

This spread was inspired by Effie Wild's take on Marieke Blokland class. The face is started with a print of a face from the Birth of Venus artwork. 

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Peacock Girl

2 of the online classes that I am currently taking are Radiant 2 Art Journals and Lifebook 2016. This page is inspired from a class in each of these classes. I started out the page using the Neocolor 2 water soluble crayons like Tam does in week one of LB2016. When I decided to add the paper napkins I chose to match the colors like in  Marieke Blokland lesson in Radiant 2

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Radiant 2: Art Journals

Here is my take from Nolwenn Petibois Lesson on Radiant 2 online class. The Peacock Feather napkin just looked like hair to me.