Let's face it again!

Sorry, but "more faces" just seemed a bit of a boring title for the remaining part of chapter 12.

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After the silhouettes, I looked at sections of the face, particularly my husband's face and ended up with a kind of animated drawing of his features.  A bad version of Homer emerged, thanfully husband never goes near my blogs.

Using a couple different decorated papers I cut out the sections and played around with them in various designs, omitting a few and duplicating a few others.





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I think I prefer the 3D look.

I did some drawing exercises based loosely on his face using wax candle, oil pastels and watercolour inks.  Like other students before me this got quite addictive - these are just a sample:

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These were torn vertically, some horizontally, to divide up their facial features then rearranged to develop a series of designs.



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I then thought it might be fun to replace some of the features with 'real' photographed features of his.

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I think perhaps further integration of the photo elements needs to happen with additional lines on top and if I take any of these into a resolved sample I would do that.