Blending Skills

100 Day Project Day 90

I can’t believe I’ve made it to Day 90 without missing a day. I was not expecting to get it quite so successfully in the bag. Go me.

I randomly picked up my copy of Austin Kleon’s gem of a book, Show Your Work, which I highly recommend. I haven’t read it for a while, but it occurred to me today that one of his recommendations in the book is to ‘Share Something Small Every Day’, and that’s what I have been doing with my wee blog project. I’m thinking about this as I’m coming to the end of 100 Days, and deciding what comes next.

I’m probably going to carry on with a daily blog, with snippets from my creative process, and sometimes the snippet being the only creative process undertaken that day. For now this habit is motivating my creativity, and has become part of my process.

Today I was continuing my musing about how my participation in the Let’s Face It class has improved my skills, and how I can integrate those skills into processes I had already developed.

I’ve spent a lot of time drawing faces, and I have a good practise in just inventing faces on the page, and I like that practise. Today I thought to myself “what if I start with a reference and make a reasonable likeness and then go off with my mixed media process?”

I grabbed one of my 6×8 watercolour blocks, which I use for the 100 mini paintings slow project, and I drew a wee portrait with a Stabilo All pencil. This was a much more focused drawing than I would usually do for this process, and a new way, for me, of using one of my favourite supplies.

Then I got my mister bottle out and sprayed. There is just something I love about drawing with a Stabilo All and then spraying it, because you never know what’s going to happen next. The bottom left photo is the drawing right after I sprayed it with water, while it’s stil wet.

The third photo, on the right, is how it looks after the water has dried. I really like the effect. I’m going to leave this one as is, and make another one to take further with my mixed media process, and see where this ends up.

Fun!

Til the morn,

Suzanne