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Here is the finished page.
It is the last spread in the book but not the last page to complete.
Hey, look..........
my eye is so much better.
really and I should have told you that it was not painful at all.
Thank you for you all your caring words. It means so much.
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See.........all better
wink wink ********
Visual Tutorial on this the last spread.
Here is how it happens sometimes.
But first, the finished spread for
"I need face time today".
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The above was the background that I had prepared last week.
As I was getting so close to the end of the Sketchbook Project, I was beginning to run out of steam, energy, inspiration and time.
This background stumped me and I kept looking at it and waiting for inspiration.
Nothing.
The thing that works for me sometimes is to just pick up the paint brush.
So, that is what I did.
I knew I wanted to paint a face so I chose to push around some Folk Art "skintone" in the middle of the background.
That couldn't hurt. This background was doing nothing for me.
Then I added some blue on the left.
Then I started scrounging through a stack of "stuff" and ran across these two pages of doodles.
They were art-at-the-desk while I was waiting to receive the Moleskin.
I was trying to think of what in the world I could do with the theme, "time".
I am so happy now that I brought the doodles home.
The little sketch in the upper right corner inspired me today.
That was all I needed.
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Using a water soluble pencil, I just made a continuous circle around and around.
Then added face features.
Fun funky features.
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Then I started adding shading around the edges.
Think I was using violet oxide liquid acrylic.
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I decided to switch to a Folk Art terra cotta because it was more of the color in the background.
That's when my eye was directed to Folk Art Metallic Copper.
I used that but eventually covered it with other colors.
Say what you will, but I really like the way Folk Art acrylics blend on paper substrate.
(off topic but I think one of the lessons in my first online workshop will be with Folk Art paints)
OK
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You know how I am, I reach a point and get lost and forget to photograph.
But here she is before I added the clock hands.
In Gold.
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Also stenciled gold dots.
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And she is finished.
Notice that I changed the writing from black to white.
More better.
I think.
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Just as soon as I type the information on my Library Card that I added, I will be on target to mail this on December 22, 2009. That is all the
TIME that I allowed for this project.
I'm happy it is done.
I'm happy with it.
I'm sad to send it away.....to never see again.
Unless, it comes to a location close to me.
And it could.
More on that later.
I'm thinking I will be absent from posting until Christmas weekend.
But I will be visiting blogs and stopping in to say hi.
I will be working on another pressing project, as well as,
my workshop videos.
Expect to hear more about that,
Sharon