Girl with butterfly

She looks rather surprised at a large butterfly landing on her shoulder, so would I. I am getting hooked on these faces! I found some pre gesso'd canvas in the $2 shop so am playing on that. All very wide eyed and innocent looking.
The cat has gone in to the cattery, the list is written for the neighbour who will feed the dogs and the chooks, most of the clothes are packed.
We are heading out for dinner and then off very early in the morning, it will be interesting to see if our plane takes off on time as this morning there was fog at the airport.

This morning

Back to watercolour and pen. This morning as I looked out of the bedroom window I saw very misty and damp hills and sky and the big plum tree in the orchard silhouetted against it all with a very wintry feel to it. I did the background in paint but had to get what I wanted of the tree in pen.
Thank you Tony for saying nice things about my heads, I am still playing with them but today this was so spectacular I had to try and do it.
The calves have been moved so there is no grain and the huge flock of white cockatoos have moved onto the neighbours hill and look like a huge white moving tapestry as they feed.
We are off to Melbourne to see the grand children early Sunday morning and although the lap top is going with us I dont know if I will be able to post until I get home.
Hope to go to the Art gallery and catch up with Wendy from Geelong while I am there.

A fabric face again

this one has an almost Madonna like look to her, done on canvas that is not prepared and with acrylic paints. I am still getting used to using these after watercolours. I am experimenting with different skin tones, it is hard to remember what i have used to make what colour.
Any way I am still play with these faces.

Strange faces

I was so tired when I got home from Adelaide last night that I couldnt think straight. I think the trauma of seeing my mother going down hill so obviously is taking its toll. I took her and a friend out for a short drive and it did have its amusing moments but when my mother could hardly get down the not very long passage to the front door it really worried me. When I got them back my mothers friend looked at me in a puzzled way and asked if she lived here too. Oh dear.
Any way I am still playing with faces so that is what I have put up. I paint them better than do them in pencil but it was just a few ideas of shapes of faces and hair.

Another fabric face

Blogger wouldnt let me load pictures again yesterday. Grrr!
any way this was done on a type of canvas using acrylics, which I dont use normally so it was quite an experiment and I had to think differently to the way I paint with watercolours.
I see I now have a word verification at the bottom of my post. I presume this is new and another thing to battle with.
Off to Adelaide today so probably nothing tomorrow.

Faces on fabric

I am cheating today but we had visitors unexpectedly so not much time for doing anything but look after them.
I have put this on my other blog but I am playing with a few faces to see if I can find something to use them on to sell at next years fibre forum. I am still working on faces and ideas. These were done with blerol pencils that i use for drawing on cloth dolls and the background is the water soluble crayons from portfolio.

Basham's Beach 2

I did this one from a photo I took yesterday. I know that is cheating a bit but at this time of the year its about the best I can do.
I am trying to get some of my proportions right, still not happy with what happened on that central jutting out bit, well not happy with quite a few bits, but happier with some of the other things I did to this one.
Looks better from further away.
Cold and overcast today so feels even colder. The dogs got a quick walk but then I watched the football and tried to get on with the little jumper I am knitting.