Friday Face OFF 2/13/26 FFO

 

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, AI. There just needs to be a face in your blog post, a link back to my blog and please use the image below. Thank you.

It's Friday the 13, always a lucky day for me. Hope it is for you too.

New portrait challenge! See at the end of this post  

 

This last week we have had to travel to Eugene 3 times. Uhhhggg. It makes for very long and tiring days and not much time for art. Ha ha, I always find time for art. Even if it's just half an hour in the evenings. Do you make time for art?

 

A month or more ago I created a face with pastels. A goofy face, but I really like her.

Then, as I mentioned last Friday, I was working on some graphite that I just didn't like the paper. 

(I will explain this more in the weeks SITAR)

I scrapped the graphite, then I found a painting of a face online that I really liked sketching her out on the creepy paper. 

 I went for the pastels. The main reason I like pastels is that, for me, it's messy art and I like that. 

I had progression photos and because I'm an idiot they got deleted. EEEEkkkk!

You get the finished piece. 

I'm very happy with this. 

 

I have never drawn from life. Just never had the opportunity. As I mentioned above I make time for art.  I decided to draw Mr. M. while he was watching TV after a day in Eugene. I did this in 20 minutes. Quite different drawing from life than from a photo. It's not great but it dose look like him. 

I'm going to try to draw more from life. Doing this piece was a good exercise. 

 

Are you ready for a new portrait challenge? 

This one is all about expressions. Create a portrait that shows one of the following emotions. Choose from,

 

1. Happy, a big smile showing teeth, bright eyes with smile lines and wrinkles. 

 

2. Sad, create a face with downcast eyes, a down turned mouth, tears running down the cheeks.

 

3. Tired. Create a face that has dark circles under the eyes with a blank stare. Or yawning. Slumped shoulders. 

 

4. Surprise. Make a face with wide eyes with lifted eyebrows and forehead wrinkles, A mouth that is in a circle shape.

 

5. Anger. A lowered furrowed brow, glaring eyes, flared nostrils, and thin lips. 

 

You may create one or more of the expressions or all of them!

 

You have 11 weeks to create your challenge face (s). April 24th will be the show date on FFO. Use any art medium you like and make it fun!

Remember, the challenges are optional you may still join FFO with your face posts.

 

Now, let's see some features.  

Cloudia. If you want to start your day off with happiness, this is the place. 

Luiz shows some of the most beautiful images of where he lives and the art from the amazing museums there. 

Don't forget to join in for Sunday in the Art Room, "SITAR" Anything art. 

Please link back to my blog and use this image. Thank you so much.

That's it for me. 

Now it's time to show me this weeks faces.
Nicole