MASKerade part 2

So, as promised, another post for The Butterfly Effect's "Mask" theme :D

Decided to try a painting, with lots of paint!! and powerful colours!!

I'm usually quite reserved where colour is concerned, but having seen such stunningly colourful pieces from other participants I think it's well past time I had a go!

I started by pasting a base portrait onto a piece of watercolour card, which I later coated with white gesso. (lots of waiting for stuff to dry....)

When those 2 layers had dried, I squooshed acrylic paints (red /yellow/blue) straight onto the board, and smooshed it around with a dry brush.(like the techno speak??)
and waited for it to dry....got bored...thought out of the box.....make another kind of mask while waiting :D

This is luuuurvely, sparkley, lavender flavoured(not edible), purpley-pink, face mask stuff from a tube !!

Waiting for more stuff to dry....groan!

but awesomely funny to peel off hahaha! :D

Freaky or what?!?! Suppose Mabel could make use of this :D

After everything dried, I added layers of paint to face.....

dry brushing thinner layers so it dried quicker :)

cut out a mask and added feathers to trim, before gluing onto portrait.

I raised the mask on silicone glue to give a 3d effect.

Enjoy :D XXX

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More Me

Mornin folks :D

Thought I'd share another self portrait I've done for Amy's Inside Out class over at Flutterbye ning. It's a free class, so if you've ever fancied trying self portraits pop over and join in :D

This one is for week 6???" working in charcoal"

I started by making a colourful base with paint on board, then added a layer of tissue paper, which I 'd already "placed my features on in pencil.

When the tissue(glue) was dry, I started to emphasise the features with charcoal

Next I "filled it out with a bit of shading.
When I was satisfied with the portrait, I added some stencilling and doodling(with a bit of foiling to add some sparkle)
The words read "Time for change"

Enjoy :D XXX

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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

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