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Friday 29 January 2016

Show Your Face - Focus On Eyes

Hey Facers, welcome to Show Your Face our weekly community face art share. Although this is not a challenge blog and you are free to post any type and style of face you have been making, we do run a prompt every other month for people to use, if they so wish. We are on the last week of our Focus On Eyes prompt and thanks again to Susana Magenheimer for suggesting it. Hope you have been having fun with it.

We have had some wonderful prompt suggestions recently and when I get a moment I will update our schedule with them, so keep your eyes peeled - see what I did there? Focus on eyes? Get it?

Erm anyway...

First up the admin...

Schedule:

Focus On Eyes - January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By - March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don't forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.
There is a prompt every other month. Using the prompts is totally optional and just there if you fancy playing along. You can still post your face work even if you haven't used the prompt.

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If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week...

Ok so we have been focusing on eyes this month but how about something that is more of an abstract representation of a face and its features?

Over To You...

Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFaceFriday. Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal pages, check out the new theme at Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Wednesday 6 January 2016

Snapfish Printed Photo Cushions

I don't know if you remember but back in November I tried out the Snapfish Personalised Stocking Stuffer Gifts using some of my own artwork and shared how that went with you all here on my blog. I liked it so much that I joined their affiliate program so there are affiliate links in this blog post.

Well the very day that I was trying out the Snapfish gift printing service I spotted that they now do personalised sofa cushions. 'Oooo!' I thought to myself, 'that is a good idea!' So when the guys at Snapfish asked if I would try out their photo on a cushion service I was 'Oh yes please!'

I went with my artwork again to print onto the cushions, I thought they would be a nice touch for the daybed that I have in my studio. The cushion printing process is really simple on Snapfish and there are two sizes to choose from: 11" x 11", which is the size of the cream with circles cushion, and 17" x 17", which is the pink diamond cushion pictured above.

Both of the designs were originally art journal pages. I haven't actually shared the cream with circles page here on my blog but there is a peek at it on my Instagram account. Here it is in full: if you check out the picture on Instagram you will see that it is a double-page spread so I needed to remove the spine using Photoshop to get this continuous piece then I extended above and below the circles, again in Photoshop, to square it off to use in Snapfish.

The pink diamond design is actually from two art journal pages, both of which I have shared here on my blog before. I took parts of the pink art journal page that I shared in my 'How To Get Through The Chaos Jungle To The Land Of Creative Joy' blog post and layered them, in Photoshop, onto the art journal page that I shared in March 2014. All I needed to do then was to crop the picture into a square to use in Snapfish.

As I found out with the personalised gifts back in November, there is something about seeing your own work on physical, usable objects that is quite a thrill and I think it is a great way of bringing your artwork out of your journal and getting more use out of it.

What about you? Is this something you have done before or are thinking of doing? I would love to hear your thoughts on putting your work to use beyond the pages of your art journal.

Massive thanks to Snapfish for letting me try out their personalised photo cushion service.

Kim

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Friday 18 December 2015

Show Your Face

Hey Show Your Facers, it is the holiday season and everyone is super busy so I thought we could keep this Show Your Face open for the rest of December. So there will be no more weekly updates until Friday 1st January 2016 but this post will stay open for your link ups over the next two weeks, bookmark this page so that you can find it easily!

Don't forget that January 2016 we will have the Focus on Eyes themes!

First up the admin...

Schedule:

Focus On Eyes - January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By - March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don't forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
this link is open until 1st January 2016, so link away over the next two weeks.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here on your blog.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.

I went for paint to make my face this week. She is made using a very simple palette of gold, raw umber and white. The base was a junk journal page that had the cleanings from a stencil with molding paste from a previous work.

I love the texture and I altered how I used the paint, so I added it thickly in places or used it in a wash in other areas.

You can see the shine of the gold paint when it catches the light.

Over To You...

Link your faces artwork here for the next two weeks until the 1st January 2016 when we will start the weekly link up again. Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with a collage theme link up to Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Friday 11 December 2015

Show Your Face

Friday is here again and so is Show Your Face! Hope you will join in this week, come and link up any portrait work you have that you want to share.

First up the admin...

Schedule:

Focus On Eyes - January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By - March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don't forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.

Another face emerging from my junk art journal this week. She is done in ballpoint pen, Derwent Graphik line marker, gesso and Pigment Izink. I think the splotches partially obscuring her face are acrylic paint but I can't remember, they must have been done a while ago now!

Over To You...

Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFaceFriday. Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with a collage theme link up to Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Friday 4 December 2015

Show Your Face

Hey Facers, Time for this week's community face share, I hope you all have been having lots of face making fun!

Right let's share some faces.

First up the admin...

Schedule:

Focus On Eyes - January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By - March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don't forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.

A winter-themed face made with paint and Micron pen

My share this week is a mish-mash! This week I've worked on a dumping page in my junk journal that is what I call the pages that I clean off stencils or other tools on. So before I had even started there was a bit of texture and the snowflakes on there from previous projects.

When I was flicking through my journal trying to get inspiration for this week's face this page popped out and so did this face. She is drawn with a Sakura Pigma marker and painted with a mix of PaperArtsy paints and Distress Paints as well as some of the Derwent Graphik line markers too.

I think the snowflake hair looks a little like one of those floral swimming hats from the 50/60's. Is that just me?

Over To You...

Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFaceFriday. Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with a collage theme link up to Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Friday 20 November 2015

Show Your Face In The Style Of Bridget Bate Tichenor

Hey Facers welcome to Friday, I hope you are all having good weeks and that you are looking forward to a creative weekend. You guys are the best and thank you for all your lovely comments! So who is up for this weeks' Show Your Face?

First up the admin...

Schedule:

In The Style Of - November 2015 (examine our favourite established artists, incorporate what they do through our own face practise)

Focus On Eyes - January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By - March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don't forget:

Show Your Face In The Style Of - please name the artist and link to them or information about them.
Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.

Show Your Face In The Style Of Bridget Bate Tichenor

I'm still enjoying discovering artists that are new to me and today I'm 'In The Style Of' another surrealist Bridget Bate Tichenor. Her faces are wonderfully expressive and, to me, a little creepy too. I tried three of her faces in my art journal and then blocked out the negative space with gesso. I'm actually drawing in ball point pen, biro, a lot at the moment so these guys were all done with a ballpoint pen.

Over To You...

Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFaceFriday. Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with an Autumn colours theme link up to Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Tuesday 10 November 2015

As Featured On Blitsy - DIY Christmas-Inspired Art Journal Page

Do you like using the seasons to inspire your art journaling? I think colour often inspires my pages through the seasons and yes, I think weather features at times too. Well the upcoming season is definitely inspiring my art journal tutorial on the Blitsy blog today. I've gone super-snowy on some Christmas music ready for a white Christmas!

[I do have some affiliate links in this blog post, you can find out more about them in my disclaimers page.]

You can see the whole process on the Blitsy blog and don't forget to check out the HoliDIY Hub for lots of Christmas gift ideas for the creatives in your life and enter the Golden Scissors giveaway for a chance to win $1000 to spend at Blitsy and then there is the daily Black Friday giveaway going on too!

Win $1000 to spend at Blitsy - Golden Scissors

Lots of chances to win something yummy!

Kim

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Friday 16 October 2015

Show Your Face

Hey Friday, Hey Facers! We had a huge number of faces last week, both old and new. Welcome to all and massive thank you for linking up, hope you had fun hopping through all of last week's faces.

Now I know that we have quite a few PaperArtsy fans here so some of you might already have seen my share today and you will also know that the current PaperArtsy challenge theme is faces! They were very kind and had me over on their blog on Monday with a guest blog post.

But if you didn't know then do pop on over to check out the PaperArtsy blog and link up your face work to their challenge post to be in with a chance to win £50 to spend over at the PaperArtsy shop, which is full of yumminess, by the way!

Right, shall we show our faces?

First up the admin...

Schedule:

In The Style Of - November 2015 (examine our favourite established artists, incorporate what they do through our own face practise)

Focus On Eyes - January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By - March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don't forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFace hashtag in social media.

My share this week is another sneaky peek of the face I did for PaperArtsy using the PaperArtsy Fresco Acrylic paint and JoFY stamps. If you want to see the whole thing and how I put it together then check out the guest post that I did for them on Monday where I've shown my process for this piece.

Over To You...

Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFace . Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: PaperArtsy Faces Challenge, with a chance to win a voucher to spend at PaperArtsy. Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with than Architecture theme link up to Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Friday 9 October 2015

Show Your Face

Watcha facers it is time to share your face work and I don't mean your nose job, I mean your artwork baby! So link away and let's see what you have been up to.

First up the admin...

Schedule:

In The Style Of - November 2015 (examine our favourite established artists, incorporate what they do through our own face practise)

Focus On Eyes - January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By - March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don't forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFace hashtag in social media.

My share this week is a bit of a cheat! I really was not finding my face mojo this week so I went for a doodle again and this time I've simplified it even further and just focussed on the simplest face form - a circle! So this is an art journal page in one of my junk journals, with layers of paint and torn pieces of paper then some simple lines and circles using a paint pen.

Over To You...

Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFace . Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: PaperArtsy Faces Challenge, with a chance to win a voucher to spend at PaperArtsy. Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with than Architecture theme link up to Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Friday 2 October 2015

Show Your Face

Good Friday to you Facers! Hope you are ready for this week's share?

Show Your Face!

First up the admin...

Schedule:

In The Style Of - November 2015 (examine our favourite established artists, incorporate what they do through our own face practise)

Focus On Eyes - January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By - March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don't forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFace hashtag in social media.

Looking For The Blog Button?

If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week...

This week I've been using my warm-up exercise again to play about with face styles in thumbnails. Working with a pen in my junk journal.

Over To You...

Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFace . Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with the appropriate theme link up to Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Friday 25 September 2015

Show Your Face

Happy face-day! Who is up for sharing faces? Yay! Let's DO IT!

Show Your Face!

First up the admin, nothing new if you read all of last week's Show Your Face blog post.

Schedule:

In The Style Of - November 2015 (examine our favourite established artists, incorporate what they do through our own face practise)

Focus On Eyes - January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By - March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don't forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFace hashtag in social media.

Back to scribble faces for me and this week I'm working on a journal page I started way back in June/July this year. I added a bit of gesso to the colour and scribbled away with a black Derwent Graphik Line painter pen.

It is kind of fun working on a textured page as you can't quite predict how the pen is going to move.

Over To You...

Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFace . Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with a window theme link up to Art Journal Journey. Don't forget Ayala Art's Sept 2015 29 Faces.

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Friday 21 August 2015

Show Your Face Inspired By Lee Krek, Julie Ann Lee, Froebelsternchen Susi and Valerie-Jael

Let's Face it! It's Friday! So come on then Show Your Face!

Hey Facers *wave*, hope you have had some wonderfully creative weeks. I have got to say I am totally blown away by all your links they just blow my mind, so keep up the good work!

Now don't forget we are in August so we are doing Show Your Face Inspired By {INSERT NAME OF A FELLOW SHOW YOUR FACER}. If you want to know why we are doing it then checkout my post from 7th August 2015 for more information.

Please make sure that:

The face artwork is yours, any stamps or templates you use to build the face should be designed by you, just as with the usual #ShowYourFace.
The person(s) inspiring your work is part of the #ShowYourFace community, but they don't have to be a regular linker.
You name the person or people that inspired your work and link to them.
You link back to the link blog post here on my blog for that week, just as with the usual #ShowYourFace.
Don't forget it is optional!

This is a no pressure linky so please feel free to carry on with your normal #ShowYourFace share if you haven't been able to do a #ShowYourFaceInspiredBy. It is just a bit of fun and if you have enjoyed it we will no doubt do it, or something similar, again.

For anyone new here, this is a regular place to come and inspire, be inspired, but above all to share our portrait progress week by week. Every Friday at 10 am (BST) a new Show Your Face blog post goes live with the linky to add your blog post or online gallery picture to with any portrait work you have been doing.

Your face can be drawn, doodled, painted, stitched, be made using any materials and can be any style, all I ask is that it is your artwork. If you use templates, stencils or stamps to build the face anatomy, then they should be ones you have made yourself and not someone else's.

Finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome, so come join in and spread the word on your blog/social media outlets. Use hashtag #ShowYourFace if you like!

Looking For The Blog Button?
If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week...

This week I've take some inspiration from a lots of lovely facers and mixed it all together to make my #ShowYourFaceInspiredBy share.

For the style of the women I've been inspired by Lee Krek from All About Art And Me. I love the style of her sketched people with their wonderful patterned clothes, I wish I could capture her style better as it always makes me smile. I also love how she does her shading too, so I added a little bit of that in my portrait this week, but I'm not really sure it shows up in the photo.

I've drawn my portrait with a black Derwent Graphik Line Painter on an old book page, gessoed into my junk art journal. I love sketches on book pages and Julie Ann Lee from Magpieheaven always uses book pages so beautifully when she uses them in her work, so I was inspired to add a bit of book page behind my face by Julie Ann.

Then the time theme, and I think a bit of the background colouring and use of watercolour, are influenced by watching the #ShowYourFace work this month from Susi from Froebelsternchen and Valerie-Jael from Bastelmania who also jointly run the challenge blog Art Journal Journey.

So that's me this week and who has been inspiring me, in a portrait nutshell, now...

Over To You...
Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFace and/or #ShowYourFaceInspiredBy. Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with a time theme link up to Art Journal Journey.

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Friday 14 August 2015

Show Your Face Inspired By June Walker

Hey Facers, I hope you have had a good week. I've been up against some tough deadlines this week so I've not yet managed to get around everyone's links from last week yet, so a MASSIVE SORRY and I hope to get around them soon.

So don't forget we are in August so we are doing Show Your Face Inspired By {INSERT NAME OF A FELLOW SHOW YOUR FACER}. If you need more information then please hop back to last week's post.

Please make sure that:

The face artwork is yours, any stamps or templates you use to build the face should be designed by you, just as with the usual #ShowYourFace.
The person(s) inspiring your work is part of the #ShowYourFace community, but they don't have to be a regular linker.
You name the person or people that inspired your work and link to them.
You link back to the link blog post here on my blog for that week, just as with the usual #ShowYourFace.

Don't forget it is optional!

This is a no pressure linky so please feel free to carry on with your normal #ShowYourFace share if you haven't been able to do a #ShowYourFaceInspiredBy. It is just a bit of fun and if you have enjoyed it we will no doubt do it, or something similar, again.

For anyone new here, this is a regular place to come and inspire, be inspired, but above all to share our portrait progress week by week. Every Friday at 10 am (BST) a new Show Your Face blog post goes live with the linky to add your blog post or online gallery picture to with any portrait work you have been doing.

Your face can be drawn, doodled, painted, stitched, be made using any materials and can be any style, all I ask is that it is your artwork. If you use templates, stencils or stamps to build the face anatomy, then they should be ones you have made yourself and not someone else's.

Finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome, so come join in and spread the word on your blog/social media outlets. Use hashtag #ShowYourFace if you like!

Looking For The Blog Button?
If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

So my share for Show Your Face Inspired By is inspired by June Walker.

A multicoloured face inspired by June Walker

I love the way June uses colour in here faces. I love the way she uses hot and cold colours and how, for me, they seem to show light and shade. So I thought I would have a bit of a colour play in my art journal with my face this week. I've used Derwent Intense pencils but I've left the colours pretty loose and played with major shapes.

Close up of a face sketch inspired by June Walker

Over To You...
Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFace and/or #ShowYourFaceInspiredBy for those of you that use them. Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with a time theme link up to Art Journal Journey.

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Friday 7 August 2015

Show Your Face Inspired By Susana Magenheimer, Giggles and Beverley Baird

Welcome Facers! It is the first Friday of August so let's roll out the red carpet for Show Your Face Inspired By {Insert Name}.

Drum roll please!

Show Your Face Inspired By {INSERT NAME}
If you need a quick reminder, or you are new to our weekly share, then for the next four Fridays you have the option to either post your normal face artwork OR push out of your comfort zone, and try something inspired by one (or more) of your fellow sharers from our #ShowYourFace community.

Either option is fine but I do encourage you to try to do a #ShowYourFaceInspiredBy at least once this month.

The inspiration can be any aspect of their portrait work like how they construct their face, the materials they use, how they use colour or even how they use other elements like words or 3D objects, whatever you like. Just make sure you name them with a link to their blog (or social media gallery) in your blog post (or social media write up if you are using a gallery) and share what you were inspired by in their work.

So what is the point to Show Your Face Inspired By {Insert Name}?

The aims are to:

Give us a little kick out of our comfort zones
Try something new
Surprise ourselves!
Extend our technique / style toolboxes
Share some bloggy/ social media/ gallery love!
Oh and have fun of course!

Please make sure that:

The face artwork is yours, any stamps or templates you use to build the face should be designed by you, just as with the usual #ShowYourFace.
The person(s) inspiring your work is part of the #ShowYourFace community, but they don't have to be a regular linker.
You name the person or people that inspired your work and link to them.
You link back to the link blog post here on my blog for that week, just as with the usual #ShowYourFace.

For instructions on how to add it to your blog check out my 31st July 2015 blog post.

My Show Your Face Share this week...
For my Show Your Face Inspired By I've taken inspiration from three lovely folks Susana Magenheimer, Giggles and Beverley Baird to produce this miniature face art work.

Susana Magenheimer from Random Artist 222's inspired me to go miniature as she loves miniature art and after a conversation in Instagram we ended up ~~foolishly~~ agreeing to trying a 2" x 2" artwork with a face. Eek! So I attempted the smallest art journal page that I have ever done for this week's share. She is sketched in pencil on a scrap of paper from a watercolour background.

The words cut from newspapers were inspired by both Giggles from Happy Tiler and Beverley Baird from Bunny's Girl as I've noticed they often use cut-out words in their artwork and I really like that look so I thought I would try to incorporate it in my work this week to finish my nano-art journal page.

Over To You...
Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFace and/or #ShowYourFaceInspiredBy for those of you that use them. Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with a time theme link up to Art Journal Journey.

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