face #3

I know it's sort of cheating to use faces i did before i set up the challenge... but i sketch it when i had considered the challenge in the past. So... i'm using it! This is a charcoal sketch on paper. I started with charcoal dust mixed with a little water, then when it was dry i erased out the highlights and re-articulated the features with charcoal pencil. White conte was used for the sparkle on the earings. The sketch, (8.5x11), is "after" a painting by John Singer Sargent.

Face #2

This is a painting i did of my daughter about 6 months ago, (it loses something in the translation to photograph). I painted in from a photo, (not ideal... but the only way to keep her still long enough), in oil on Linen primed canvas. I really like painting on the linen canvas!

Face #1

100 Faces

Okay... I am taking up a challenge to paint/sketch/print-make/collage, etc  100 faces

over the next 6 months.  I am drawn, (no pun intended), to the face and the way light

falls on and defines the features on the unlimited array of human faces.

My goal is to do most of the work from life, however i will include works of the great

masters which i will attempt to copy, (and learn MUCH from). I may also choose to work from

photographs that i take.

So, if you see me staring at you and squinting a little.... i'm really not "sizing you up", i'm just 

analyzing how your shadow shapes hold up under the scrutiny of "the squint", (more on the

"squint" later).

~Sandra

blurry 2

This is actually my first sketch without my glasses- thats's how I want to paint! Loose.

I can always tighten up a picture, but to start out loose is a real challenge for me.

After Millet