Wazzit

While participating in the 29 Faces challenge, Robin from Pink House Studio created noses, eyes, and mouths .pdf you can print out and use to create faces.

I had fun manipulating and playing with the images in Paint Shop Pro. I used the rubber stamp tool to add the bee and to make the yarn hair.

I borrowed the 11th Doctor's fez, his jacket, and bowtie.

Last Face of The 29 Faces Challenge

We've come to the end of the month and the last face of the challenge.  Face 29.  Knight from the Westminster Psalter

Deanmon - Face 28

Dean from Supernatural. Sharpie pen, colored pencil

Twigs - Face 27

A cartoon face on a cartoony background. From the animated series Tree Fu Tom, Twigs (voiced by David Tennant)

Throwback Thursday, Face 26

A page with faces printed on it gave me the idea for Face nbr. 14. I drew the center face and added details to the faces on either side. Sharpie pen, acrylic, watercolor pencil.

I attended a parochial elementary school. Most of my school memories are from being in church rather than the classroom. We were always going to Mass, holy days of obligation, patron saint feast days, first Fridays, Stations of the Cross, helping Sister with the altar linens and decorating the altar with flowers...

In those olden days, women and girls were required to have their heads covered. Either you wore some sort of a hat or a lace mantilla. If you forgot your hat, Sister would give you a clean, facial tissue held in place with a bobby pin to wear to Mass. Oh the humiliation of sitting in church with piece of Kleenex on your head.

Wordless Wednesday - Face 25

Green Man - Sharpie pen, Inktense, watercolor pencils

Telephone - Face 23 & 24

Today's teens don't know the joys of being tethered to the wall while spending hours on the phone chatting with a best friend. Of being interrupted by the rude and forceful click of some family member picking up the extension because they wanted to use the phone. Or the dulcet tones of your dad yelling, "But you saw her all day, what the hell do you need to talk to her for now?"

Rose - Face 22

The Tenth Doctor's companion, Rose. Sharpie pen, acrylic, and watercolor pencil

Ten - Face 21

Proportions are off. I shouldn't draw and watch tv at the same time.

Outlander - Faces 19 & 20

Last night, Himself was flipping through channels and found Starz was running a free preview. If that wasn't good news enough, Outlander based on Diana Gabaldon's series had the first 6 episodes.

In 1945, Claire Beauchamp Randall is on her second honeymoon in Scotland. Claire's husband, Frank, is involved in a genealogy search about a relative, Black Jack Randall, a British army captain in Scotland around the time of the Uprising.

Bored, Claire goes to a standing stone ring called Craigh Na Dun to collect herbs and wildflowers. A storm breaks suddenly, Claire braces her hand on one of the stones while the world turns upside down. When she comes to, Claire finds herself back in time in the year 1743 where she meets Jamie Fraser, a young highlander.

The book series is riveting (there are 9 books so far) and the Starz dramatization doesn't disappoint. I also found out you can watch online at Starz

The Friday Five Good Things, Faces 17 & 18

Five good things that happened this week

1. I found the best way to trace my family's heritage is through food. I taught the Eldest to make gravy (what the rest of the world calls pasta sauce) and eggplant Parmigiana following Ma's recipe.

2. I received a cool envelope from Finnbadger.

3. The house down the road had harvest decorations up. The scarecrow couple made me smile as I toodled by.

4. Weekly Skype with A and Red.

5. New nibs, white ink, and a couple of new brushes arrived sooner than I expected. Love new toys!

How was your week?

Throwback Thursday, Face 16

Ma came from a time when women wore hats. She loved hats. There were hats to wear while running errands and fancy hats to wear to church, visiting, or special occasions. Every year, there would be a new ensemble for Easter. Coat, shoes, handbag, and hat. One year, in the late 1960s, Ma found a spring green coat, a straw handbag (though it looked more like a steamer trunk), and a yellow hat. The hat was a giant pillbox affair (not the petite style Jackie Kennedy wore). It was covered in yellow, fabric flowers. The blossoms would flutter in the breeze. I thought the hat looked more like a beehive.

When I was a kid, I hated wearing the frilly hats. Hated the elastic band under the chin that choked you or the pinchy, vice grip things inside that pressed into your brain to hold the hat on your head.

Are you a hat fancier?

Wordless Wednesday, Face 15

Benedict Cumberbatch - traced on vellum from an envelope sent by Finnbadger of Envelope 100

Sister Mary Impatience, Face 14

Sound asleep. Or so I thought. I must have been thinking what face was I going to draw next, and I got a flash of a nun, shades of my childhood.

Nevermore, Face 13

The page with the graphic of a crow just begged to have a sketch of Edgar Allan Poe next to it.

Sharpie pen, watercolor pencil

Vision, Face 12

"Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals." - Butch Cassisdy from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Sharpie pen on printed vision page

Sugar Skull, Face 11

The 29 Faces book had a graphic image of half of a face. I finished it by turning it into a sugar skull. The sugar skull is a decoration used in the Day of the Dead celebrations to remember those who have crossed over.

Sharpie pen, acrylic, watercolor pencil

The Friday Five Good Things, Face 10

Just love the Modigliani style

Five good things that happened this week.

1. Himself doesn't like the morning news programs. He's been watching The Doctor before he leaves for work. No complaints from me.

2. This semester, Himself has a later start time for classes on Monday morning. I get to sleep in until 7 AM instead of waking up at half past stupid early in the morning.

3. Had virtual tea with Red. She gave me a virtual tour of her new house in New Mexico.

4. Had a virtual art date with A. This might become a weekly meeting.

5. The Eldest has taken an interest in cooking has been cooking dinner.

Throwback Thursday, Face 9

When Himself was a little fella, his favorite lovey was a chimpanzee named Zippy. Zippy had a rubber face with glass eyes, white baby shoes, and elastic suspenders. Himself liked to put his arms through the suspenders and carry Zippy on his back like a backpack. We all liked to do that.

Several years ago I found Zippy in the Cracker Barrel store. In a fit of nostalgia, I  bought him. He's not quite the same. Himself's Zippy had an ugly not very attractive face. The Cracker Barrel monkey had plastic hands and one of them was holding a banana. Himself's Zippy had plastic hands. He thought the banana was removable, but had gotten lost.

While browsing through an antique store, we found an 8 mm movie reel starring a (live) chimpanzee named Zippy. Apparently, Zippy was discovered by Buffalo Bob Smith, creator and host of the 1950's television show, Howdy Doody. Zippy also appeared on a lot of variety shows of the time like The Ed Sullivan Show. Soon there was a stuff doll dressed in overalls with a tee shirt with Zip across the front, and later other dolls, members of Zip's family.

Himself's Zippy didn't have a personalized shirt. In doing some research, we found another chimpanzee. Apparently, some other company tried to cash in on Zip's popularity and created another chimpanzee named Mr. Bim. No matter that Zippy was a look-alike. He'll always be Zippy to us.

Wordless Wednesday, Face 8