FTL212, LIM89, Embellish Magazine Paint Challenge

Looky!  I made a card!!  Go figure. . .

Sketch from Clean & Simple Stamping (FTL212).  Colors and use of paint from Embellish magazine.  The theme of WINGS comes from Less is More.

FROGTAPE leaves a clean edge for painting.  A bit of Smash tape along the bottom adds fun polka-dots.

Sentiment and embossed butterfly were made with supplies from A Muse.

Illustration Friday - WATER

 This week's Illustration Friday inspiration word is WATER.

This inspiring quote is from Edwin Louis Cole.

Linking to Creative Every Day and
Artists in Blogland.

Call the Midwife -

I understand that the name of this post may be a bit misleading - never fear - there is no need for a midwife for the Mathey family.  "Call the Midwife" is the name of the BBC series I started watching recently on PBS. I have a love of all things "baby" and a love of all things "British" so it makes for smashing viewing!

 

This girl is my sad attempt at one of the main characters from the show - it is also my first attempt to draw someone who is real and not just straight from my imagination.  

Me - "Corey, Do you think this looks like Jenny Lee

 from Call the Midwife?"

Corey - "I guess so. . . (long dramatic pause)

 What is Call the Midwife?"

Started with the basic silhouette and her lips - they always seem easier than the eyes! 

 I was trying to add some shadowing around the top of her nose but it made her look like she had a shadowy "unibrow" - not the look I was going for but in the end I was happy with how she turned out.

I will leave you with the angle I always love the most - upside down.  My girls always seem to look better from this vantage point.

Linking to Art Journal Every Day and

Paint Party Friday.

Illustration Friday - MIRROR

Life is like a mirror

We get the best results when we smile at it

The Illustration Friday topic for this week is MIRROR.  

Took a big step in my art journal and painted directly into it - I'm usually pretty chicken about that - at least 90% of the time I draw/sketch/paint on another piece of paper and collage it into my journal. Started with a funky background then

started in on the girl - I've painted enough that this stage doesn't faze me anymore - I know that it will eventually get better. . .

Pretty fun that the background paint resulted in two different colored eyes.

Linking to Creative Every Day.

Napkin Girl

Girl with "anaconda neck" (per Caleb) sketched on a McDonald's napkin with a ballpoint pen.

PDCC152 - Splash of Purple

"He loved her for her gallantry and her calm composure in the face of the dangerous uproar."

 Now you know why this girl has such a serious expression - it isn't everyday that you have to deal with a dangerous uproar!

 Colors are courtesy of the Play Date Cafe - Black, White with a splash of Purple.

Linking to Paint Party Friday and

Art Journal Every Day

Illustration Friday - BOOK

This week's theme at Illustration Friday is BOOK.  I love books - love to read them, love to create with them.  When I was young it was rare to see me without a book in my hand - I was even in the Nancy Drew book club and it was a happy, happy mail day when my book would arrive!!  Therefore, BOOK seemed like a simple concept until I sat down to make something and was stumped - gave it a few days and came up with the idea to make a literal book in my art journal - from book paper!

When you open the book you see a great quote from C. S. Lewis and a girl who may be a character from within the book or perhaps she is the reader of the book - your choice!

She is colored with Copics and has fun hair or is it a turban - once again, your choice!!