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.
This has been a weird week for me. Good and not so good all rolled up into one. In fact this is a good explanation for my entire year. I'm focusing on the good. :)
Part of that good is all of you and the another part is art. I'm thrilled with what I'm creating and week by week I will show you how it is all coming about.
How has your week been?
For FFO this week I have a colored pencil drawing. I like the sensitivity of this face.
Here is the original. Yes, I know the original is a painting.
Only the finished piece. Obviously the painted original is much more vibrant than the colored pencil but I like the way it turned out. I did make some changes to the eyes and mouth
A nice Andy Worhol representation.
All chosen by the number generator, but I'm making sure everyone gets featured.
First up Kwarkito. Who can go wrong with an image of John Lennon?
There is so much movement in this.
Melody Jacobs. Always has interesting posts.
Barb with her lovely doll.
The new challenge is to create a portrait of anyone you want. It can be your
family, friends, actors, faces you find on the internet, or a perfect
stranger that will allow you a photo to work from and to show with your
portrait. You can work in any medium, except photography and you have
until Friday January 30, 2026. Make it fun and let's see what you come
up with.
That's it for me. Now its time to show me your face.
Nicole
Hi Nicole! I love that you've been working in color lately. I also love all the work you featured. I'm glad you're giving us until 1/30/26 to do a portrait of someone. That'll give me the days I have off to work on one... perhaps I'll attempt to do my grandsons. I pray that you're taking care of your eye, and that it heals in time. Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteI love your latest coloured pencil art! And everybody else's art that you feature in this post too! So much talent out there, so great to see it.
ReplyDeleteYou are getting a portrait from me THIS WEEK. I hope I have a new one for the January challenge.
ReplyDeleteLovely portrait work and enjoyed your features. -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI like both portraits, they're both so interesting. Your AI yellow art is fascinating - how do you get these ideas? Thank you also for the feature! I've already chosen an image for the portrait challenge, but I'm a bit intimidated. Have a lovely weekend, Nicole, and if you celebrate, merry Christmas.
ReplyDeleteWonderful colour pencil drawing.
ReplyDeleteThe yellow quest challenge looks neat.
Thank you for hosting, Nicole.
So many wonderful faces and yellow, oh, I love that color! Wonderful you can focus on but the good.
ReplyDeleteMerci beaucoup pour la publication. Bravo pour ces visages si colorés que tu as réalisées j’aime beaucoup. Les AI en jaune sont très belles et intéressantes. Mais bon ce sont des AI … j’espère que tu vas mieux et te souhaite une bonne dernière semaine de l’avent
ReplyDeleteNerry Christmas Nicole
ReplyDeleteMuch♡love
All looks good. Busy week it's been in this house - out and about.
ReplyDeleteHello Nicole! Happy Friday! I hope and pray that your days get better and easier.
ReplyDeleteMy week was chaos and now it is slowing down. Thank goodness! I really love your portrait, I love the colours and waves and it gives such movement to the piece. I love the warm colours and dark colours too. It is wonderful!
Lovely features of the portrait challenge.
I wish you all the best and have a wonderful Friday and a lovely weekend. I haven’t done my Christmas shopping so I am praying I can do some shopping this weekend.
Hugs,
Your friend,
Maria
I like your colored pencil face. You captured it completely Nicole. And I like it without the texture the painting has. And cool minimalist yellow pieces. I hope the rest of your 2025 goes well and definitely focus on the good. Especially in this world right now and with various health issues everyone has. Thanks for sharing my self-portrait too. hugs-Erika
ReplyDeleteBom dia e boa sexta-feira minha querida amiga Nicole. Seus desenhos são maravilhosos. Achava que eu também tinha uma postagem interessante. Mais fica tranquila. Muita saúde minha querida amiga. Grande abraço do Brasil.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful face drawing, Nicole. Have a lovely holiday season 🌲
ReplyDeleteBoth versions of this are just fantastic. I love how you used the color! Hope the next week has more of the good, less of the bad!
ReplyDeleteAhhhh, such special colored pencil work! More of that, please. 😄
ReplyDeleteOoops again, not Anonymous. Me, Barbara.
ReplyDeleteLove all your various artworks ~ your new colored pencil one is divine ~ AI work are great too although I am not a fan of AI ~ hugs,
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Fica tranquila minha querida amiga Nicole. Se você escolheu, cada pessoa é porque você gostou mais. Cada escolhido está de parabéns. Gosto não se discute e se respeita. Desejo muita saúde para você e todos os seus familiares. O desenho que você me deu, estará sempre no Blogger.
ReplyDeleteYou´ve got some nice faces in your overview .
ReplyDeleteHave a good time and all the best
Violetta
great face!!! I looked at it a while
ReplyDeleteI haven't been painting, life is hard now but you make me want to.... !
I LOVE the curls on Carol too, my hair is stick straight! LeeAnna
I was glad to learn that you did not have a detached retina, and I hope the vitreous gel stops shrinking and you don't have a reason to cry. May you heal well. Meanwhile, your colored pencil portrait is excellent! I like the softer colors. Did you also paint the first one in the past? Striking minimalist images, Nicole! I enjoyed, Erika's, Mia's, Kwarkito's, Roentare's, Vivian's, Melody's, and Barb's art. There are amazing artists in our circle! Keep enjoying doing your art. Having a passion helps navigate challenges. All the best to you!
ReplyDeleteI like your pencil drawing. And I like the fruit in the yellow challenge.
ReplyDeleteAlways good to concentrate on the good.
ReplyDeleteI liked the yellow quest challenge.
May the coming weekend be a good one :)
All the best Jan
I like your colored pencil drawings and I also enjoy seeing everyone's contributions.
ReplyDeleteI love your interpretation. The use of all the colors fascinates me--in both.
ReplyDeleteI like the melting lemon the best, I think, but they are all good.
Everybody has done such excellent work.
Here's to focusing on the good and may you have much more to focus on than the bad. ;)
Nicole lindos trabalhos, magníficos desenhos, passando pra desejar um feliz sábado bjs.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing my digital self-portrait, Nicole. Just to let you know that it is not AI, it is a digital drawing/sketching.
ReplyDeleteI love your colored pencil drawing. I will try to join you again with another portrait.
Hugs, my friend.
Beautiful tour of your artistic wold!
ReplyDeletethanks
ReplyDeleteThe faces that you create in chalk, paint, or charcoal are always the best ones, I think. These are great.
ReplyDeleteFantastic faces, Nicole.
ReplyDeleteI love the colored pencil art. I really liked all of these.
ReplyDeleteIt’s great that after all these years you are still experimenting with different media, and congratulations on those bloggers willing to share their self portraits. I hope there are more to come.
ReplyDeleteI really love your yellow art. This is such a nice post-I'm hoping next year will be ALL good for you.
ReplyDeleteI made an error link on my entry #22, please ignore it. I love the colored textured of your portrait. Thank you for sharing my work.
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