Last weekend, several friends spent a wonderful time
journaling on
Guemes Island. One of my at goals for 2010 is to improve my skills at drawing and painting faces.
Judy Wise encouraged me to make an
accordion face book. I
collaged, stamped and drew on the background, copied faces on tracing paper to learn
proportions and then painted the around the faces.
Painting faces takes lots of practice!
During the year, it will be fun to experiment with different
techniques to become more adept at depicting faces.
One of my goals is to learn how to draw faces and portraits. It's a challenge to get proportions correct and placement of facial features. Ever since I took a two day workshop from Anne Bagby in 2004, I've collected photos of faces and practice drawing them occasionally.
When we sketch at coffee houses in the winter, I bring my little box of faces and practice drawing them. To see how my drawing compares to the original photo, I scan each into Photo Shop and over lay them to scale. The drawing is on the bottom and the photo on top with an opacity of 50%. 
Now I can observe both layers to see how they relate to one another.
This tells me I have to work on the placement and spacing of the eyes and mouths. With practice, these drawing will become more accurate.
