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19 February 2016 Kim Dellow

Hello lovely Facers, how are you this week? Hope you have been making lots of faces! Ready to share them?

First up the admin…

Schedule:

Inspired By – March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)
Head Positions – May 2016 (try different head potions through the month. Suggested by June Walker)
Quick Draw Faces – July 2016 (set a timer to say 10-15 min – or less if you dare! – and draw a face or several faces in that time. Suggested by Gibby Frogett).
Change Hands – September 2016 (try using your non-dominant hand to draw/ paint / make your face this month. Suggested by Hazel Agnew).

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don’t forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.
There is a prompt every other month. Using the prompts is totally optional and just there if you fancy playing along. You can still post your face work even if you haven’t used the prompt.

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If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week…

Back to Illustrative faces this week and one from my junk journal done with a ballpoint pen and blocked out from the page with Gesso.

I haven’t done a side profile for a while so thought I would give it a go this week.

Over To You…

Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFaceFriday. Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal pages, check out the new theme at Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Show Your Face

12 February 2016 Kim Dellow

Another week and another portrait work share, it must be Friday! YAY! Don’t forget that if you come back later in the week and can’t find the Show Your Face link up post then check out the tabs under my blog title or use the drop down menu under the blog title if you are viewing the mobile version of this page.

First up the admin…

Schedule:

Inspired By – March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)
Head Positions – May 2016 (try different head potions through the month. Suggested by June Walker)
Quick Draw Faces – July 2016 (set a timer to say 10-15 min – or less if you dare! – and draw a face or several faces in that time. Suggested by Gibby Frogett).
Change Hands – September 2016 (try using your non-dominant hand to draw/ paint / make your face this month. Suggested by Hazel Agnew).

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don’t forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.
There is a prompt every other month. Using the prompts is totally optional and just there if you fancy playing along. You can still post your face work even if you haven’t used the prompt.

Looking For The Blog Button?

If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week…

One of the things I like working on with my faces is light and shade, positive and negative space and that is my share this week. I played a little with light and shade in paint with my finger in my junk journal. I wasn’t going for true realism and perfect features, but more trying to imply form using light and shade.

This is great fun to try, I don’t use any guide marks or structure for these types of faces, I just let the face develop from the page and using my finger seems to help to switch off the part of my brain that likes structure and order. If you have never tried this type of painting faces give it a go, it is very freeing!

Unfortunately, I think my ordered brain did re-engage into the process as I found I started to fuss and put in detail lines with a palette knife so I stopped working on the page and just left it.

Tip for if you want to try this – use a page that already has a layer or two of paint and that you have not seen for a while so it is like you are seeing the page afresh.

Over To You…

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

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Show Your Face

5 February 201611 May 2018 Kim Dellow

Hey lovely facers, this week has a been little busy for me here on my blog but please don’t worry if you ever come to my blog and can not find the Show Your Face post. Checkout the tabs at the top of the page, I’ve put in a shortcut so that you can find it straight away. The shortcuts should also show up on the mobile version of this page in the drop down menu under the blog title.

Have you had a chance to see my new video yet? Trish Latimer, editor of Craft Stamper, Tracy Scott, Clare Lloyd and myself have each shared a full tutorial on how we make our faces in real time. It is called ‘Creating Faces’ and is available to buy now as a DVD, Bluray or via the Traplet online streaming/ download site. There is also a free introduction that you watch to see what the video is about.

Last thing to mention before I let you get on to the link up, I’ve had a chance to update the schedule with lots of amazing prompt suggestions from Facers so mark them in your calendar.

Right, let’s get Sharing!

First up the admin…

Schedule:

Inspired By – March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)
Head Positions – May 2016 (try different head potions through the month. Suggested by June Walker)
Quick Draw Faces – July 2016 (set a timer to say 10-15 min – or less if you dare! – and draw a face or several faces in that time. Suggested by Gibby Frogett).
Change Hands – September 2016 (try using your non-dominant hand to draw/ paint / make your face this month. Suggested by Hazel Agnew).

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don’t forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.
There is a prompt every other month. Using the prompts is totally optional and just there if you fancy playing along. You can still post your face work even if you haven’t used the prompt.

Looking For The Blog Button?

If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week…

If you want to know what you can do with the techniques I show in the new Creating Faces video then how about my Show Your Face share this week?

I’ve used the same basic technique for her as I demonstrate in the video, the only difference is that I’ve done this one in my junk journal on a painted page and used acrylic paint to colour her eyes, lips and hair band then blocked out the background to help her to pop from the page. In the video I use the Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours/gouache paints to colour her eyes and lips and she is drawn on canvas board.

Over To You…

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

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30 January 201611 May 2018 Kim Dellow

You all know that I’m pretty much obsessed with drawing and painting faces don’t you? If you are a regular to my blog then you can’t have helped but notice the weekly community art share link up that I host called Show Your Face. Well if you are fan too of drawing and painting faces on your mixed media projects and in your art journal then you are going to love this new Creating Faces video from the people who bring you Craft Stamper Magazine.

Trish Latimer, editor of Craft Stamper, along with three other designers Tracy Scott, Clare Lloyd and Kim Dellow (Hold on! That is ME!) are sharing how they create their mixed media faces in ‘Creating Faces’ the video, coming to a DVD player, Bluray player or the Traplet online streaming/ download site NOW!

Creating Faces Video showing how to add faces to your mixed media work

Ok so I might be getting a bit excited, I could hear that deep film announcer guy’s voice in my head just now (could you hear him too or was that just me?).

Anyway, I AM pretty excited because, well 1. I’m one of the designers sharing how I make one of my illustrative faces and 2. I’ve seen all the videos and they are pretty fab! Each designer shares all their tips and tricks and you get to see the whole process in real time.

If you are new to face drawing and painting each designer goes through all the steps they take from start to finish so it is a great place to start. If you are further along with your own face art there are plenty of techniques and tips to add your mixed media toolbox and adapt to your own practice.

Creating Faces is available in a choice of formats: £14.95 Bluray, £12.95 DVD £2.50 single download or £8.95 for all four downloads and you can find the Bluray and DVD in the Traplet shop and the downloads on the Traplet streaming/ download page.

But you might want to get yourself along to the Craft Stamper Facebook page as they are doing a GIVEAWAY!

Hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

Kim

*** 12th April 2018 Update – I am sorry to say that this video is no longer available. But in happy news, keep your eyes on my blog or my YouTube channel as I have some face videos coming later this year! ***

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Show Your Face – Focus On Eyes

29 January 201611 May 2018 Kim Dellow

Hey Facers, welcome to Show Your Face our weekly community face art share. Although this is not a challenge blog and you are free to post any type and style of face you have been making, we do run a prompt every other month for people to use, if they so wish. We are on the last week of our Focus On Eyes prompt and thanks again to Susana Magenheimer for suggesting it. Hope you have been having fun with it.

We have had some wonderful prompt suggestions recently and when I get a moment I will update our schedule with them, so keep your eyes peeled – see what I did there? Focus on eyes? Get it?

Erm anyway…

First up the admin…

Schedule:

Focus On Eyes – January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By – March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don’t forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.
There is a prompt every other month. Using the prompts is totally optional and just there if you fancy playing along. You can still post your face work even if you haven’t used the prompt.

Looking For The Blog Button?

If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week…

Ok so we have been focusing on eyes this month but how about something that is more of an abstract representation of a face and its features?

Over To You…

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

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Show Your Face – Focus On Eyes

22 January 2016 Kim Dellow

Hey Facers, it’s time for another share so I hope you have you eyes and faces at the ready!

First up the admin…

Schedule:

Focus On Eyes – January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By – March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don’t forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.

Looking For The Blog Button?

If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week…

Back to a little bit of experimenting this week and I thought I would have a go at some quick ink sketches of different eye shapes and sizes.

Over To You…

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal pages, check out the new theme at Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Show Your Face – Focus On Eyes

15 January 2016 Kim Dellow

Hey everyone, how has your week been? Have you managed to do any face practice this week? I’ve been super busy but I have managed to squeeze in some playing with the Focus On Eye Theme we are running this month, how are you getting on with it? Tried anything different?

First up the admin…

Schedule:

Focus On Eyes – January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By – March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don’t forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.

Looking For The Blog Button?

If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week…

This week I’ve used our Focus On Eyes theme as an excuse to try a Manga-style face. It is something I’ve wanted to try for ages but have not had the courage to give it a go! So I thought this would be a good kick out of my comfort zone and a great way to try it out. He/She (I haven’t quite decided which!) is a pencil sketch.

Over To You…

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

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Show Your Face – Focus On Eyes

8 January 2016 Kim Dellow

Hey Facers, time again to link up any portrait or face drawings, paintings, sculptures, stitching, doodling that you have been doing. We do have a ‘Focus On Eyes’ theme running this month and feel free to use the theme prompt in any way you fancy.

First up the admin…

Schedule:

Focus On Eyes – January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By – March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don’t forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.

Looking For The Blog Button?

If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week…

In last week’s Show Your Face I used the theme to have a look at the eyes I’ve been drawing, I did a kind of eye ‘stock-take’ as I called it! Having done that I could see where my comfort zone was when I draw eyes, so this week I tried to break out of my comfort zone a little and tried these HUGE stylised eyes. She is done using Prismacolor pencils.

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Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

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1 January 2016 Kim Dellow

Happy New Year Facers! May 2016 be a brilliant year for you and all your creative endeavours!

It’s time to share some faces and we have a great theme to kick off the New Year. New Year is all about looking forward so let’s start with a Focus On Eyes! Thanks Susana Magenheimer for the fab theme. So what is your favourite way of doing eyes? What styles do you like? Take this opportunity to try out something you haven’t tried before such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. The Eye world is your oyster, go for it!

As with all the themes here on SYF please feel free to use the theme to inspire your work or not as the mood takes you.

Right, on with the first SYF share of 2016.

First up the admin…

Schedule:

Focus On Eyes – January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By – March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don’t forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.

Looking For The Blog Button?

If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week…

I thought I would take the opportunity to do an eye ‘stock-take’ for my first post this month! So I’ve gathered together some of my eyes from 2015 Show Your Face Shares to see what my style is or how it is developing at the moment. There is definitely a similarity coming through with my eye style so it is going to be fun trying out different things this month and seeing how that affects my practice.

Over To You…

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

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18 December 201511 May 2018 Kim Dellow

Hey Show Your Facers, it is the holiday season and everyone is super busy so I thought we could keep this Show Your Face open for the rest of December. So there will be no more weekly updates until Friday 1st January 2016 but this post will stay open for your link ups over the next two weeks, bookmark this page so that you can find it easily!

Don’t forget that January 2016 we will have the Focus on Eyes themes!

First up the admin…

Schedule:

Focus On Eyes – January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By – March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don’t forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
this link is open until 1st January 2016, so link away over the next two weeks.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here on your blog.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.

Looking For The Blog Button?

If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Last Face for 2015…

I went for paint to make my face this week. She is made using a very simple palette of gold, raw umber and white. The base was a junk journal page that had the cleanings from a stencil with molding paste from a previous work.

I love the texture and I altered how I used the paint, so I added it thickly in places or used it in a wash in other areas.

You can see the shine of the gold paint when it catches the light.

Over To You…

Link your faces artwork here for the next two weeks until the 1st January 2016 when we will start the weekly link up again. Please do let anyone you think would be interested in sharing their portraits know about our community here.

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with a collage theme link up to Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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Show Your Face

11 December 201511 May 2018 Kim Dellow

Friday is here again and so is Show Your Face! Hope you will join in this week, come and link up any portrait work you have that you want to share.

First up the admin…

Schedule:

Focus On Eyes – January 2016 (break out of our normal practice and try different styles of doing eyes such as traditional, cartoon, manga etc. As suggested by Susana Magenheimer)

Inspired By – March 2016 (pick fellow Facers to inspire our work this month)

Feel free to let me know if you have any more themes or ideas for Show Your Face.

Don’t forget:

Show Your Face is a community link up for portrait work in any style or medium.
the aims are to share, learn, practise, inspire, and be inspired.
to make sure that the face artwork is yours, if you use any stamps or templates to build the face they should be designed by you.
the link is open from 10 am (BST) every Friday and stays open for a week, so link away.
finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome.
to link back to the link blog post here for that week.
Spread the word on your blog/social media outlets and use the #ShowYourFaceFriday hashtag in social media.

Looking For The Blog Button?

If you want to wear the blog button with pride then hop on over to Show Your Face 31st July 2015 to grab it and there are instructions on how to put it on your blog there too.

My Share This Week…

Another face emerging from my junk art journal this week. She is done in ballpoint pen, Derwent Graphik line marker, gesso and Pigment Izink. I think the splotches partially obscuring her face are acrylic paint but I can’t remember, they must have been done a while ago now!

Over To You…

Catch you later Face-Artinators

Kim

PS. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s Art Journal Everyday post. Painted pages share at Paint Party Friday. Art journal page with a collage theme link up to Art Journal Journey. Those of you on Facebook ask Darcy Wilkinson if you can join her Face To Face page.

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