Friday Face OFF 11/21/2025

 Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your face art.

You know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, Photography, drawings, paintings. There just needs to be a face in your blog post.

I get news from 1440 and this is what I found this morning. Many of you have drawn or painted Frida's face and my dear friend Gene Black quilted her face.

A Frida Kahlo self-portrait could become the most expensive artwork by a female or Latin American artist at auction tonight in New York. Sotheby’s estimates “El sueño (La cama)” will fetch $40M to $60M, potentially surpassing the $44.4M woman's record set by a Georgia O’Keeffe painting and $34.9M Latin American record held by another Kahlo self-portrait.

“El sueño (La cama)” depicts Kahlo asleep beneath a skeleton wrapped in explosives, a nod to a Mexican Easter effigy. While most Kahlo pieces are in Mexico under a law barring their sale, this self-portrait is privately owned abroad. The piece appears in a surrealist-themed auction, although Kahlo rejected the surrealist label.

Now for my FFO piece.

I'm working on a colored pencil piece but it takes longer than graphite so here is a graphite face.

It starts like this. I used mainly graphite, tinted graphite, colored pencil and white gel pen.

 Then this 

Then this

Then this. I wish I would have left her hair like this.

Finally I have this. Her head is cut off the page and with the hair it makes her look strange. Anyway, that's what I think. Mr. M. says that won't matter once I frame her.

 

Time for some AI art that I create at NightCafe.

I went on a fairy kick.

 

And then I had to go dark with them.  LOL

 

Now it's time to see what other FFO artists have created.

I'm going to show and extra piece this week. From Gene Black. 

It just seems appropriate. If you don't know, Gene is an amazing quilter and he did Frida in fabric. 

Next is my friend Barbara. She actually was the brilliant artist who helped get FFO started and introduced me to Gene Black. The three of us would challenge each other every week with portraits. Soon other artists wanted to join in and that's how FFO got going. 

She has been gone a long time from the blogging world but is back! So be sure to visit and welcome her.  

Christine always surprises me with all the detail she gets with her miniatures.

The next artist is Louise. She is a gem. Always has the most interesting and fun posts. Here she shares prairie dogs. 

Before I go I want to remind all of you that next week on FFO all of us will be showing our self portraits. 

I ask that it is really you from any age. Please include the photo you worked from. If you are creating from life, like looking in a mirror, just show any photo of you now. 

Any medium can be used except a photograph. Ya know, you can't just put a photo of yourself. However, it can be realism, character, surreal, abstract as long as we can see you in the art. 

 Any kind of expression. Create you as you see yourself.  November 28, 2025 to show your face on FFO. That gives you 1 week to work on it. All Self Portraits will be featured the following week on FFO. I hope you join in.

Now it's time to show me face art.

Nicole