Faces in journal. Continued.

 

Do you recognize anyone here?

Faces in journal

one face a day.  This is so much fun. You will notice my color pallette has a limited number of colors and there is very little shading. It's because I am using Posca acrylic paint pens on muxed media paper.   I like to select a different group of colors each day.   

 

Faces. In journal. Pushimg the limit.

 

Faces Sept journal

 How many ways are there to paint a human face?  I think there are no limits. 

Abstract faces in watercolor

 Here are a couple abstract faces in th journal, done in watercolor. 

Abstract faces art journal

 I have 18 abstract faces on display at Stockton Art league's Elsie Mae Goodwin Gallery for the months of August and September.  After the dog home  hospice was behind me, and the new little sweetheart is settling in, I needed a new project.  I had a new Strathmore mixed media journal, and thought I'd do a series of abstract faces in this smaller size. 5.5 x 8.5 inches.  I did the first one on August 15th.   Because it's a mixed media paper, I could use acrylics, watercolors, colored pencils, or any other supplies.  I started with Posca Pens to test the paper.  The first pages I gessoed first, thinking it was probably necessary.  I will be posting more pictures from this journal which is almost full already. 

Remembering Nikki and Lulu

Lulu on left, the adorable but wild problem child. And Nikki the sweet people lover.    Gone but never will be forgotten.    
 

A new love

 Nikki and Lulu my last faithful pets, within the last two months had health issues that could not be resolved.  They have joined my heavenly dog pack.  They had been with me for over a dozen years.  I miss them terribly. 

I found a rescue dog online that I arranged to adopt.   This is Rosie.  With the most terrible backstory, she needed a quiet stable landing spot.  She found it here.   

9 lbs of sweetness. Has no social skills, has not made a sound in first 5 days, but is housebroken.  Hmmm... she is a puzzle.  

She was a stray who needed emergency surgery and 2 month recovery period before she was ready to offer for adoption. I saw her within two hours of the post on their website and was first to make contact and interview.   My artwork is on hold as I am devoting a lot of time socializing her and getting her to walk on a leash.  We have vet appointment tomorrow to look at her little legs. My guess is she was in a puppy mill kept in a crate.  She looks very young but the surgeon says she has already had several litters of pups.   

Every day her legs are getting stronger. She can now manage 5 steps to my porch.  First day it was impossible for her.   Today she has gone up and down the stairs many times on her own without help or coaxing.  

She spotted a lizard under my shed and later through the fence. It's one that Lulu had watched all summer.  Rosie does not know what toys are for, or how to play...but she loves to hunt lizards.   I have seen two tiny ones and two large ones that she hasnt spotted yet.  She is obsessed, I can see by the fun she is having running from side to side of shed hoping to catch it. 

It's a big difference from living in a crate.   Wish us well.