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.

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...

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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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.

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...

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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Show Your Face In The Style Of Leonor Fini

Hey Facers, up for some sharing this week? I hope you have been having fun with the 'In The Style Of' theme either through seeing the work of other people taking part or by taking part yourself. It is your last week to give it a go if you haven't yet as we are back to normal un-themed sharing next month. So enjoy this last week and if you want to do it again next year then let me know.


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.

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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...

My share this week is probably the best know of the artists inspiring my work this month. She has here own dedicated website for a start! It is nice to not have to link to Wikipedia for a change! So my In The Style Of person this week is Leonor Fini who had a long and diverse career from being a practically self-taught artist. I just love her watercolour and gouache faces and the suggestion of form with the movement of the water on the page.

As with my other 'In The Style Of' work this month I started by trying to mimic one of her faces to try to deconstruct how her art works and that is what you can see in the picture above. Then I've tried to pull the techniques into one of my own faces, see the picture below. Obviously I have a long way to go and lots to learn to get to a point where I am confident with this technique but I just love watercolour faces so I shall work on it and we shall see where it gets me!

Today's shares were done with a waterbrush and a Stabilo All pencil.

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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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.

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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...

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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Show Your Face In The Style Of Toyen (aka Marie Čermínová)

Lovely Facers,  it's time to Show Your Face! As it is November we do have a theme and it is 'In The Style Of' where we can incorporate the work/ style/ technique/ materials of an established artist. But you are free to use the theme or not use it and free to interpret it differently if you wish, so just have a play!

Before we get started I just want to say how sorry I am that I'm not getting around everyone's blogs at the moment. November is proving to be very busy here at Kimberley Studios! I am really missing seeing your work in more details but I am loving the thumbnails that show up and I am extremely grateful that you are journeying with me in this face journey, I hope that you are enjoying it!


I hope that you will forgive me and that I get some time to do some catching up!


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 #ShowYourFaceFriday 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...

So I am really enjoying finding out about female artist which, like I said last week, is how I decided to interpret our Show Your Face theme. It is a great excuse to find out more about them. My share this week is in the style of Toyen (aka Marie Čermínová 1902 - 1980) who was part of the surrealist movement according to the regrettably small biography about her on Wikipedia.

Her style seems to be very much around line work which is something I've found I enjoy doing as well. My Toyen-style face is drawn in ball point pen on a painted art journal page. Then I've added some gesso and dripping to help her to stand out from the page.

If you are interested in women surrealists you can find a handy list on Wikipedia and also here are some curated together on Flavorwire.

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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Show Your Face In The Style Of Marie Laurencin

Welcome to November Facers and time for a theme for anyone who fancies stretching their portrait practice a bit. The theme is 'In The Style Of' and the idea is that you incorporate the work/ style/ technique/ materials of an established artist.

The theme is lose and totally up to you how you interpret it. The main reason for the theme is to prompt us all to step outside our comfort zone a little and stretch our own practice so that we can add tools, learning, ideas to our everyday work.

As with all the themes it is totally optional, you can do it once in the month, every week in the month or not at all and just link up your usual work. There is no whip and it is all a bit of fun so run with it, don't run with it, it is up to you! Just enjoy, have fun and hopefully learn and grow.

If you do join in please tell us who your inspiration is and add a link to the artist themselves or a website about them so we can all get to know them - thanks.


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.

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...

I am ashamed to admit that I know very little about artists and the history of art, I never learnt it at school and past school I was too busy studying science to fit in art in any great depth. Don't get me wrong I love visiting galleries and learning about art, I'm not a complete cultural void but I've never really had the chance to study artists and art in a big way. So that is what I am doing with our theme this month.

I thought I would take the opportunity to really focus in on some artists' work and I'm going to focus in on female artists because, let's face it, they are massively under-represented in formal art education/ galleries/ museums. If I thought I knew little about art in general I know even less about female artists and that just won't do.

So this week I'm In The Style Of Marie Laurencin (1883-1956), if you google (other search engines are available!) her work you will see that she has some glorious portrait styles, just stunning. Don't be deceived by how simple it looks it is far from it. There are some really subtle shading that gives her portraits so much depth and expression. My work comes nowhere near capturing this subtlety but it is great fun to explore and fun to try.

I've used a canvas board that already had a background including some 3D stencil work that I incorporated into the face to add some texture.

If you are interested in discovering female artists I found a couple of lists on Wikipedia that you might be interested in: a list of 20th Century Female Artists and this potted history of women artists.


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.

Before you go, if you have a favourite female artist I would love to learn more about them so please do let me know in the comments below. Thanks!

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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Spooky Show Your Face

Hallow Facers, welcome to the spooky edition of Show Your Face, if you are of a delicate constitution then you may not want to scroll downnnnnn...

Mwahahahaha *Evil Laughter*

It's ok, it is only me, getting into the Halloween spirit! It's Show Your Face as normal but my share this week has a spooky twist.

Before we get started don't forget that next week it is November so we have a theme/ prompt - In The Style Of  - November 2015 (examine our favourite established artists, incorporate what they do through our own face practise) for anyone who wants to have an excuse to try something different. Totally optional, you don't have to use the theme or you can push your boundaries and give it a go, up to you.

Also the social media hashtag has evolved to #ShowYourFaceFriday thanks to the guys on Instagram for making great use of it and owning it!

Ok, let's Spook this!

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 #ShowYourFaceFriday 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...

Scary? Not scary? What do you think? I didn't set out to make a scary face this week, I was just looking at the negative space on a very shaded face with a light source above and to the front. I like the added texture of the watercolour pooled in the brush strokes of the gel medium that I used to stick the book pages down.

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 than Architecture theme link up to Art Journal Journey but remember they will have a new theme in a day or so.Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Show Your Face

Ready, Set, Face! Yep, it is that time again, lovely facers, to come and link up your portrait work this week. I'm looking forward to seeing all of your shares so share away!

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...

Back to some more detailed face work from me this week after my last couple of stylised face doodles shares for Show Your Face. I had a bit of time whilst listening to some business webiners to practice my shading.  My main focus was on the negative and positive space and trying to capture that with my pencil work and shading. These are all areas I want to practice more so I'm pleased I spent a little bit of time on it this week. I like how the nose turned out.

If you want to try this it works really well if you use a photo of a face that has a lot of light contrasts in it. Often this needs the model to be lit strongly from one direction. It isn't easy to get photos like this as we often see faces with uniform lighting that is designed to limit shadow contrasts. The best possible way is to use photos you have taken yourself and start collecting a catalogue of face photos that you can use in your art. It also means that you will have no copyright issues as the photos were taken by you.

So when you next take a portrait photo or even if you are taking a family photo, have a think about the lighting and get a couple of shots in, if you can, where there is a really strong light coming from one direction, such as from a window, to cast shadows over part of the subjects' face.

I did kind of enjoy this process, so what about you guys? What have you been up to with your faces this week and do you have any shading tips to share?


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 before 25th Oct to have 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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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.

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...

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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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.

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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...

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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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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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.

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...

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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Watcha Facers! Are you ready to share your face this week?

Great! But before you do I've put together the schedule for Show Your Face for the next few months. Thanks to everyone who left their comments, votes and ideas on what you wanted to get from Show Your Face.


Schedule: Show Your Face...

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)

Remember it is all optional play. The theme will run for a month and you can use the prompt on every link up that month, a couple of link-ups, or none and just link up a non-theme related face, totally up to you.


Why Every Other Month?

To keep it all relaxed and no pressure. The themes are there to nudge us out of our comfort zone, to give us a prompt to examine something we might not usually do, then give us the time to process what we have learnt through our usual art practises.


Ok, New Week, New Show Your Face Share.

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...

It has been a busy old week again this week and I haven't had time or the mojo for a full face unfortunately so I went for a bit of eye sketching practice instead.


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.

Feel free to send me more ideas and themes you would like to study for Show Your Face.

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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