More practice faces

I've been playing with water soluble oil pastels since Patti Medaris Culea introduced me to them earlier this year. If you like using watercolor pencils on your faces you'll love these. They blend like the pencils but the colors are more vivid.

The brand I have is Portfolio - you find them in with the Crayola crayons. If you want to see what the box looks like click here. The link will take you to an Amazon.com page. I've been drawing faces on fabric the last few nights just for fun. I like to practice making faces this way rather than stuffing heads - much faster. Anyhow - my doll club has decided that we are all going to make a fabric postcard and put it in our exchange bag for our holiday party. I decided to use one of my faces on mine. I'm not the best artist but with practice I've gotten much better. Here's my postcard.

The background is a piece of fabric covered with leftover threads and then tulle and then free motion embroidered to hold everything down. I think it still needs a little something - maybe a bit of hair.

The butterfly is an iron on and I'm not really pleased with the placement but I was afraid to get it too close to the edge - that it would interfere with the presser foot when I did the satin stitch around the outside.

Duh - it's an iron on - I could have placed it when everything else was done.

Sometimes I just don't think!

Posted by judi at November 23, 2004 8:30 AM