Friday Face Off

For the first Friday Face Off of the year,  I am sharing a couple of AI creations and the start of what I hope will be my entry for the portrait challenge. 

First up is one that I like BUT it is a "failure" as an AI self portrait.  

I don't think it looks very much like me.  It is however a very interesting portrait. 

Next up is another portrait I created on Night Cafe.  I am not sure if I have ever shared this one.

I am sharing her today because she will be the basis for my entry into the Portrait Challenge. 

I have used a print out of this one to create a tracing onto watercolor paper.  

I did make some artistic changes in the tracing. 

I will likely make more changes once I start painting .

If you look closely,  you may notice that many of the angles have become curves. 

This tracing is a bit faint because I used the printout with the oil pastel tracing trick that 

Nicole shared on this post.  This happens to be the third use of the same print. In a few places 

I did have to add a bit more pastel to get a line.  For the most part it worked well. 

I am planning to paint this is acrylics, simply because it is easier to correct mistakes. Ha ha. 

Have a Happy and Creative New Year

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Stay Creative 

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Friday Face

Just for a fun quick post for the Friday Face Off,  here is an AI created image of me as a detective. Ha ha

I do look a bit like a television detective, don't I?

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Make art while you wait

Saturday morning I woke to a cold house.  My HVAC (heating and air) unit had failed.  I called around and found a HVAC man that would come on a Saturday.  He spent a couple of hours trying various fixes, and then said, "Well, I can put you in new one Monday if my supplier has it in stock."  He quoted a price that wasn't nearly as bad as I expected.    Meanwhile, we were about to have the coldest night of the year on Sunday night. BRRRR.  I did some planning, got my emergency natural gas heater set up and a couple of electric units in place to keep the pipes from freezing.  
Monday afternoon the man called and apologized that he couldn't make it until Tuesday.  

That gets you up to the "waiting" mentioned in the title of this post.  He showed Tuesday morning and got to work.  After he started I went back to Mom's to be sure she was good and to be sure that she ate lunch.  Then, back home to wait for him and his helper to finish.   Thanks to another blogger,  I had seen a video on using oil pastel to create a tracing as the beginning of an artwork. 

So I took this print:

then I did my set up and traced:

With  a good tracing, I started painting with Inktense pencils, but

I quickly switched to the Inktense blocks.

Before the HVAC man was finished I had this painting 

completed and signed. 

Frida Smiles

I used some artistic license on the colors and design. 

Overall I am happy with this painting - and I think I will be doing this again.

Linking to Friday Face Off 

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Friday Faces

Here are some Friday Faces for the Friday Face Off. 

First one created with Nicole (our hostess) in mind. 

Death in Mourning

Next up a "redo" of a face I used last week.

Man on the Run

And last an image that I created with the possibility of making it into a small quilt for a relative.

Chico's Cousin

Happy Friday everyone

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Stay Creative 

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