Jeudi Journal

Another week has flown by - this time Wendy and her husband Peter have been spending a few days with us.  That meant that this journal entry had to be done quickly and I so regretted the choice of "Face".  It is ages since I painted any faces, and I found it so difficult to remember what to do with regards to getting the various features on.  I can remember how to draw a face and where the eyes, nose and mouth go but it is the colouring.  Never was a strong point but a year on .....

Anyway, here is my Face with its background of cerise and turquoise.  A task in itself - this is the third background I did for it - the first was horrendous and sadly I cannot tear the page out of the book the second not much better but at least it can be covered in black paint.  It was one of those times when everything goes wrong.

I eventually put the cerise paint on with a baby wipe so that it was not 'too much in your face'.  Then I used the turquoise paint with my favourite "Diamonds in the Rough" stencil in patches here and there.  A bit of white pen work here and there and some circles stamped in gold paint with lines over some of them, then a few black larger circles completed the background for me.

The face was done with green gold eyes and magenta lips.  I first began the turban with a dark blue but it didn't seem to come right so it had a covering of pale blue put over, still not right so a light coat of green turquoise as opposed to the blue turquoise in the background.  That felt better.  The ties at the side did not seem to be large enough so I cut the whole face out and then added some more ties behind with another piece of paper.  You can probably see some touches of green in the turban - just because I felt like it - I thought they rather 'added' to the overall look of fabric.

Today would have been my dad's birthday, wonder what he would have thought of my face painting. I am sure he would have loved it, anything I  did was always 'top notch' in his eyes.  I was a real Daddy's Girl.  (Mum too would have loved it - I was blessed with those two)

Now to see how Wendy got on because she would be as rushed as me.