Art Journal Every Day: Pages from March/April 2016

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I've got a bunch of daily art journal pages for you today.

This first page has one of my all time favorite faces I've ever drawn.  I can't quite put my finger on why I love it so much.  Perhaps it's the scale?  The colors?  The details?  Those big front teeth? I'm not sure, but I just love it.  And when I create something that I love it makes me think that I need to analyze it and keep working in that direction.  One thought that I have is that it's color blocked slightly differently from my normal faces.  I might try being a little less symmetrical in the future....

I love its imperfection.

This next page is one of my "prettiest" pages ever.  It has a kind of feminine watercolor feeling in my opinion.

For the effect below, I used my Mumsy stencil -- stenciled with paint first and then traced with a black pen.

This is the Doodle Leaf Balzer Bit -- both the negative and the positive:

To create this face I outlined one of the faces from my 4 Faces stencil and then colored it with watercolor paints.  I really like how it turned out!

I shared a video showing the background for this page coming together, many moons ago. This is how the final page turned out:

I love to work on my pages in stages over time.  I thought I might cover up the background and do some journaling, but when it came time to paint over it, I just couldn't do it!

As you can see, I doodled over a magazine image with my beloved Moonlight Pens.

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