Tuesday 27 September 2011

Tribal me :D

This weeks theme at The Butterfly Effect is "Tribal/Indigenous art", as chosen by Natasha

I am supposed to be doing some self portraits, under the guidance of Amy at Flutterbye, so I thought I'd combine the 2 "Tribal self in cool colours"

The paints I have used are the new Martha Stewart any surface home decoration paints. You can't see from this pic(had to shut the blinds cos sun too bright) but the paints are all pearlescent and metallicy shiny. Colours used wolf gray/jetstream/aqua/surf. The garland is made using MS stencil that came with paints :D
Not sure yet if I want to add "Stuff" to give a more dimensional piece, we'll have to see :D

12 comments:

  1. oh wow, this is neat. I LOVE the tribal elements. Hey! you have a really great likeness there! Is that from your original template or did you redraw? It looks GREAT!

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  2. I saved my original drawing to computer so I could print off feint images to work over :D

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  3. That's an awesome self portrait. :) Great tribal mask!

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  4. wow! this is very tribal looking.... and different! you are just full of talent aren't you!

    hugs :)

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  5. Bonita, with exquisite textures. Magic and tribal.

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  6. aborigini wood spirit,

    very beautiful,

    very very lovely

    Dx

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  7. Great picture Gina, l really like the pine cone thing you have going around your face it adds real depth to the picture also loving the contours you have put on your face. :-) xx

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  8. love this tribal portrait, I only just got some more 'old' envelopes so I can do some more portraits.

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  9. Absolutely gorgeous, thanks for sharing with us at Anything goes, good luck and hope to see you again, Gaynor DT :)

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  10. Wow, fabulous art work! Thanks for joining us at Anything Goes this week, hope to see you again soon! x

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