Mixed Media Monday: A page from my sketchbook

Hello friends! Today's Mixed Media Monday share is a mixed media portrait page from my sketchbook. :)

I started off with an eye drawing.

Then I thought I should add some brows.

And then I decided that maybe I should attempt a whole face so I went in with the nose...

Added a mouth...

Gave her some hair....

Worked on refining the details....

Added highlights on the high points of the face,

I think she turned out quite decent. No photo reference. Just a girl from my imagination. :)

Happy week ahead friends!:)

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A girl from my travel sketchbook

Meet the girl from my travel sketchbook.

It was one of those sketches that started with a quick eye sketch (on the plane) that turned into a face sketch.

And then of course, I went all out into colouring of course.*winks*

Happy week ahead friends! :)

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The reworked mixed media girl on wood panel

April 2016

November 2018

It was a challenge to rework this particular mixed media girl I did back in April 2016 because she was done on a wood panel so you have to work with the grain of the wood in order for your colorants to show up.

I used acrylic paints for her skin and inks for her features. 

Then I went in with some Faber Castell gelatos and Prismacolor pencils for the details.

I also replaced the yellow flower with a white one and added a pearl trim on her ruffled top.

What do you think?

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A mixed media girl from my art journal

Last month, I bought the A4 Strathmore Mixed Media Art Journal in Toned Gray and was eager to give it a test-run. I haven't had much luck with mixed media papers I've tried because in theory, they are supposed to stand up to lots of wet media but in reality, they tend to peel when there's too much water involved. 

Can you tell that I struggled with this mixed media girl? *winks*

I started with a quick sketch and then went in with some watercolours (a mix of Schmincke +Holbein + Daniel Smith). Unfortunately, the paper started to peel once I really go into the wet on wet technique on the girl's face. So I went in with some Faber Castell gelatos to "save her face" and used coloured pencils to render the details.

Check out that pissed-off face on my girl! She's certainly channeling my frustration! 

And can you tell that I don't enjoy drawing ears? The ones I draw always look weird. Hahaha!

I think she will look a lot better once I give her a nice bright background. When I eventually get to it of course. But let's just call her done for now, shall we? *winks*

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Another reworked mixed media girl on canvas

Hello friends! Today I share another reworked mixed media girl on canvas. The original piece was done in October 2015. (I didn't alter the background at all...colour differences due to different cameras used.) 

It was fun and challenging to paint a new face over a textured surface while keeping the background intact. :)

I used Jo Sonja's flesh tone acrylic paint for the base of the face, drew the details in with Liquitex inks and Posca paint markers and finished off with Faber Castell gelatos (highlights and cheek colour on the face).

Happy week ahead friends!

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Reworked: mixed media girl on canvas

Apparently you are supposed to keep ALL of your old artwork to see how far you've evolved in your artistic journey. Well, I most certainly am trying to erase all traces of my earlier cringe-worthy work by re-working them. *LOL* 

Like this girl that I drew back in October 2015. Can you believe how far I've come since then? *winks*

Honestly, I just don't have the space to keep all of my artwork. But I don't like to waste stuff either. So I've been reworking my artwork to make them more reflective of my current style.

Yep, I just slapped on some acrylic paint to cover up the "old" face and started all over.

Here are the art supplies I used to re-paint the girl's face.

What about you? Do you try to rework some of your older pieces to make them more reflective of your current style?

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Revisiting old techniques - a girl from my art journal

When I first started my drawing journey 3 years ago, I was really into drawing whimsical girls on messy backgrounds. Then I sort of got sidetracked into drawing the eye with pencils and coloured pencils for most part of the last year or so.

I decided to revisit my old "style" and draw a whimsical girl on my latest art journal page....to see if I still enjoy the old techniques I used to employ.

The background was first "messied up" with acrylic paints, inks, spray mists and random doodles. Then I sketched the girl's face, painted her face with acrylic paint, drew in her features with inks, coloured her face with watersoluble crayons and added details with coloured pencils and paint markers.

It was fun revisiting old techniques I used to enjoy.

What about you? Do you revisit old techniques you used to enjoy?

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Just a girl from my sketchbook

The best advice I got on drawing faces actually came from a beauty consultant at a Laura Mercier counter. Of course, she was teaching me how to "draw" on my face to enhance my features. I took the principles I learned about highlighting and contouring my physical face and applied them to my drawings. :)

Anything that is light and bright draws your eye in...anything that is dark recedes to the background.

Some in-progress shots. 

There you have it. Just a girl from my sketchbook.


Happy week ahead friends!

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Just another girl from my sketchbook

Hello friends! Today's share is just another girl from my sketchbook...that I did on my trip to Hanoi last month. :)

I started by drawing a girl from a magazine on the plane. Yep, people flip those magazines to see what they can buy and I flip through to see which girl I can draw! *LOL*

Happy weekend friends!:)

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A mixed media girl in my travel art journal

When I travel, I like to spend quiet nights in my hotel room playing with my art supplies. There's something about being in a foreign land that really gets my creative juices flowing. Plus, the limited art supplies I bring forces me to just go with the flow with what I have.

I will usually start with a quick sketch on the plane (I like using the pictures in the magazines on-board as my reference photos).  And yes, I bring my art supplies on the plane (The other day, when I was going through airport security, the officer asked to see my pencil case and I was like, "which one? I have 3!" *LOL*). 

I painted this mixed media girl in watercolours before refining her features with coloured pencils and a white acrylic marker. Yeah, my girl is wearing falsies because I was too lazy to sharpen my black coloured pencil. *winks*

Well, you are most attracted to those red luscious lips anyway right? *haha*

Happy weekend friends! :)

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