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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Illustration Friday - SWEET

"Are you old enough to go off and take a nap without being told?"
                                          - 1940 HEALTHY GROWING

What is sweet to you?  A cookie? A flower from your child? A chance to spend a few minutes alone in blissful sleep?  SWEET = NAP in my world.  She looks a tad embarrassed - probably she has been caught sleeping by a "non-napper".   "Non-nappers" are the killjoys in the napping world - the wet blankets at my slumber party!
This girl is the first girl that I've ever painted on an easel.  Too bad I only have two long paintbrushes - I had a couple more but I cut them off because, "Why would I need long paintbrushes??!!  It isn't like I paint pictures on an easel."  Perhaps that helps to explain her abundance of blusher - either that or she has a healthy glow from just waking up from a refreshing nap. 
She started on a piece of hot press watercolor paper and had a bad haircut - maybe it would have helped to paint hair on the other side but I had grown weary of mixing paint so I cut her head out and pasted her in my ledger art journal. The background colors come from Panpastels.
Misty Mawn uses these four colors for her "go to" palette - I felt like a grown-up buying tubes of heavy body paint and mixing my own skintones.
Linking to Illustration Friday - SWEET,
Art Journal Every Day, 
Paper Saturdays, 
Artists in Blogland, and
Paint Party Friday
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28 comments:

  1. FayeJune 6, 2013 at 11:16 PM

    She's beautiful, Michelle. It looks like a healthy glow to me, but I have rosecea which gives me rosy cheeks. I hope you will try more easel work. This one was very successful.

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  2. Martha from ilove2paintJune 6, 2013 at 11:43 PM

    I'm a wet blanket then hahahaha :oD
    I hate naps, I have to be very sick to take one, and have been that way since little. :oP
    Your lady in the page is sweet, that was the first world I thought before reading anything!
    Happy PPF

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  3. sharonJune 7, 2013 at 1:11 AM

    She is lovely!, I tsake naps and often get embarressed if a friend turns up, um I wondedr if my cheeks get red like that?

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  4. ErikaJune 7, 2013 at 1:26 AM

    Love your Lady with this beautiful lips :)
    Happy PPF and hugs

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  5. Anne MandaJune 7, 2013 at 2:13 AM

    Love how she got rosy cheeks from her nap, she looks beautiful! <3

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  6. www.dorissdaughter.comJune 7, 2013 at 2:26 AM

    Beautiful skin tones and I like the way you have painted the shadow on her neck. I seem to have phases of napping so I don't do it often but always feel refreshed when I do:)

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  7. soulbrushJune 7, 2013 at 3:01 AM

    ha ha I guess I am old enough to have a nap without being told. Fab art.Happy PPF.

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  8. UnknownJune 7, 2013 at 4:28 AM

    Shes lovely! I would tell her that to nap is to retain sanity!!

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  9. Šolanje na domu-WaldorfJune 7, 2013 at 5:16 AM

    She's gorgeous and i love your art journal page. :) I find it hard to paint on the easel. I guess it's all about practice. :)

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  10. dentheJune 7, 2013 at 6:20 AM

    She's beautiful! love her lips and her pinky cheeks ....

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  11. alarmcatJune 7, 2013 at 7:29 AM

    she's very pretty...haircut and all :)

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  12. AnonymousJune 7, 2013 at 8:07 AM

    She's lovely and does look as if she was woken abruptly from her blissful nap. Happy PPF

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  13. Mary C. NasserJune 7, 2013 at 8:15 AM

    Gorgeous pages, Michelle.
    I love the rich colors you created in this portrait.
    ♥♥♥
    Happy PPF!!
    Mary
    Mixed-Media Map Art

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  14. BreesmimiJune 7, 2013 at 9:24 AM

    I'm old enough for a nap and I don't need to be told to take one! Love this painting and the layout in your journal. HPPF!

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  15. MoniqueJune 7, 2013 at 9:26 AM

    She looks wonderful. I love how you cut het hair =).
    Have a lovely weekend.
    xx

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  16. IvyJune 7, 2013 at 10:03 AM

    She's lovely! Love your color palette. HPPF!

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  17. Tam HessJune 7, 2013 at 10:07 AM

    haha cute napping story. I love naps too, especially on the weekends when the house is full of my boys and their noises, for some reason it's soothing! Even Andy's drumming!

    I actually liked her funny hair cut! She looks good both ways. The colors you used are wonderful. They give her the most beautiful glow :) Thanks so much for sharing your work. Happy Paint Party Friday!

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  18. janice smithJune 7, 2013 at 10:17 AM

    Great save, Michelle. She looks good with her hair pulled back. I'm all for naps as well...she need not blush in front of me :-) Happy PPF! - janice

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  19. JanetJune 7, 2013 at 2:34 PM

    I enjoy a little afternoon nap once in awhile. I think your girl looks rosy and healthy and beautiful.

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  20. RitaJune 7, 2013 at 7:29 PM

    Just gorgeous! I love it. Lots of comments mention her glowing and it's true! She is lovely.

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  21. Tracey FKJune 7, 2013 at 7:40 PM

    Painting on an easel is a whole different animal... I quite like a table easel as I ca get a bit closer... bad eye sight you ... and napping is the sweetest thing int he world... nothing comes close top the feeling of flopping onto the bed mid afternoon... xx

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  22. UnknownJune 9, 2013 at 1:03 AM

    Great job. Painting on an easel is not always easy. I have mine set at table height so I can sit down on my swivel typing chair... Your girl is beautiful and love her rosy cheeks..:)

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  23. Valerie-JaelJune 9, 2013 at 4:29 AM

    Your girl is beautiful, love the rosy cheeks! Valerie

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  24. Silke PowersJune 9, 2013 at 10:28 AM

    She is gorgeous, Michelle, and as a fellow napper, I can tell she woke up refreshed! I could so relate to you getting weary of mixing paints - I sometimes think I could get much nicer-looking paintings if I weren't so lazy about mixing paints... ;-) Loved my visit here! xoxo Silke

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  25. Tammie DickersonJune 9, 2013 at 10:05 PM

    She is beautiful! Love the mood and the feel of this!

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  26. paulineJune 10, 2013 at 7:32 PM

    such beautiful portraits Michelle...love the kindness in her eyes. :-) xox

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  27. manomijJune 11, 2013 at 12:03 PM

    Lovely work and Happy belated Paper Saturdays! ManonX

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  28. barefootedwandererJuly 23, 2013 at 1:14 PM

    I love, love, love, your artwork and have been inspired by your portraits...


    I hope it is alright that I mentioned you in my most recent post... Please visit my blog to see my current project...

    http://barefootedwanderer.blogspot.com/2013/07/whimsical-womanin-progress.html

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