100 Faces

Well, I've drawn, painted, scratched 100 faces, and am just beginning. This sweetheart is number 90-something. I followed Jane Davenport's online class, The Whimsical Face, in which she demonstrates front, side, and profile faces, in her own fanciful style. 

Draw oval with colored pencil

Divide into quarters

Place eyes, nose (a circle), top lip (looks like mustache)

Slanted lines extend eyes

Iris is circular

Small curve denotes bottom lip

Background from torn tissue paper,

adhered with Liquitex matte medium

Rose cheeks, flesh color skin, hair is gesso

Bottom of nose curves

Chin, temple indentations

Lips

Top lip is darker

Highlights on bottom lip, bridge of nose, brow bone

Shadow at side of nose, eyes, under chin

Eyes have color and shadow

Pupil and hair to be added

Bicycles at the beach

Together
29" x 24"

I love a photo Gretchen sent me of 2 bicycles parked at Morgan House in Dublin, Ohio. The lines were complex and the bikes seemed almost human. It inspired these bikes at the beach. Here's my progress.

Drawing
Gretchen's bikes
my beach

Figuring out the background

Love the lace-- but not here

The fence and sand are monochrome, but not really

Black tires stood out, added action

Eventually I exchanged the black tires for slightly more subdued fabric

Some things I learned in October

Here's stuff that has stuck in the sieve of my mind from what I read and heard in October.

words and names I like:
unhelpful

Cosmic dust

Iggy Azalea

When I take pictures I think about nothing.  -- issei Suda
The average teenager has already amassed years of daily, if not hourly communication skills, shared thoughts,
Piney Z bridge, Tallahassee --133-foot, prefabricated box truss, weathering steel bridge, the northern walkway takes visitors 130 feet back down to solid ground.
"Every novelist ought to invent his own technique, that is the fact of the matter." Francois Mauriac
YouTube: place where creative anarchy pursued viral magic." David Carr NYT

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." F. Neitzsche

Looking old, she said, should be a boast about experiences accrued and insights acquired, a triumphant signal ...

"Just because things aren’t going as planned doesn’t mean they are going poorly."  -- Artist Jesse Reno

"Prose — words in their best order; Poetry — the best words in the best order..." STColeridge

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." And, "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it" PICASSO

"... if you’re not willing to take big risks and try daring experiments, what is the point? "Dr. Laurie Glimcher

He wanted to astonish Paris with an apple (about Cezanne)

"to define me is to negate me." Kierkegaard

"There is enough of heaven in a hedgerow, and enough of hell in the perfidy of man.” Clive James

100 faces

83/100
100 faces project
(Ouch! There's a pin in his forehead.)

Drawing a face is, to me, an accomplishment, but drawing a likeness of someone is a real challenge.

Practice, practice, practice! I'm loving it.  Some hints I'm trying to apply: look for the tilt of the smile, the length of the nose, the shape of the jaw, and little lines and marks that make each face unique.