Mixed Media Face Prompt

  

Art Journal Prompt:  Mixed Media Face

 

Instructions:

Create a face using mixed media - that means different mediums and materials.  You can follow the video tutorials below of do your own thang.

Example:

  
This is NOT a finished piece.  I am going to cut her out and put her on a canvas tomorrow.  This was about trying out Rachelle Panagarry's technique.  I really did like the rough texture and the way she turned out.

How I did this face:

As I said above, I was trying out a technique shared by a friend of mine from Facebook.  Now.. I know a lot of you don't like facebook and that's ok.  You don't have to join anything to see what I did.

1. I drew my face in graphite and smudged it for shading in all the right places.  
2. Then I followed the steps in the above videos.... using flesh colored acrylic paint for the first step and my own choices for colors on all the rest.
3. As a final touch, I played with it with kohl i noor pencils.  Just for little things.

Here are close ups of the features:

 

Notice all the gritty detail and texture added by the tissue paper.  I love that.

Supplies used today:

• tissue paper
  
• watercolor paper - I used crappy paper I had here
• pencil
• eraser
• waterbrush 
• artists' watercolor field box set 
• liquid acrylic paint 
• gel medium
  
• glazing liquid 
• kohl i noor colored pencils