DVArtist Nicole Campanella's blog. Living in the Pacific Northwest sharing my experience with gardening, recipes and my art in extreme Halloween, graphite, acrylics, leather, and clay. Please join in with Friday Face OFF. Create a blog post, feature a face in any art medium. The faces can be human, alien, animal, and the strange and wonderful. Link up and share.
I'm still healing my eye so not much activity here. My eye is healing. Not as many sparks and the floaters have pretty much gone away. Thanks to all of your for your prayers and well wishes they really do work.
Here is a graphite piece I did a few weeks ago. The background is pastel.
Enjoy your Sunday
Nicole
Thursday, December 25, 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 hope all of you who celebrate had a fabulous Christmas. It was very quiet at our place. That's fine with us.
As I mentioned before I have been deep into art. I really like how this one turned out. Here is the original photo. When I find a photo I like I do turn it to black and white. Helps with shading for graphite.
and here is my interpretation. I'm pretty satisfied with it. I do wish I had used a larger piece of paper.
on the easel
I keep moving the photo of him around as I work.
Yay I did chest hair.
Here is the finished piece.
AI art that I created on
Night Cafe. It's the best site to create with. If you want to join in, it's free, just click on the link. Night Cafe
There was a baroque art challenge and I decided to make it more up to date.
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.
Remember this is optional. I still want to see all of your wonderful faces.
That's it for me. Now its time to show me your face.
I'm finding that less to no screen time and all of your prayers and well wishes, has my eye healing. So, no monsters today. I will see everyone for FFO.
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.
For some reason I don't have any progression photos of this.
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
I have some AI pieces that are in a Quest challenge. The challenge was to use the color yellow in a minimal style. These are mine. You can only have 4 entries.
For the Self Portrait challenge 2 of my lovely artist were left out so here they are now.
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.
Thank you all so very much for the prayers and good wishes for my eye. I have accepted all the healing. As long as the shrinkage of the vitreous gel stops and there are no tears I am good to go. No more yoga for awhile or anything else that will put pressure on my eyes.
Well, this just sucks! I'm having symptoms of retina detachment in my left eye. I saw the ophthalmologist today in Eugene. She, reported that my retina is not detached but that the vitreous gel that is behind the lens of the eye and infront the retina is shrinking. It is a sticky substance and as it shrinks, (due to old age) it pulls on the retina. She says there is nothing to do but wait. I see her again in a month. However, if symptoms change for the worse I am to call her immediately, even if it is on the weekend.
I'm asking please, whatever your belief system is, to send all the healing energy, spell healing, pray healing, candle healing, Reiki healing, crystal healing and good thought healing to me. I cannot be down with another surgery.
I accept all healing words and prayers and ceremonies.
Right now if you sign up through the link above you will get 20 free pro creations. That's darn good. NC is free. You get credits everyday and if you join in with challenges, and Heart other artist you get credits and so many other ways. Right now I have 1,300 credits and I create a lot on NC. So if you want to try or if you are all ready using another prpgram come check out NC.
On with the monsters, get ready.
Now for some fantasy/monsters.
Now for some pretties.
And the last one. Who doesn't like seeing happy kids in the land of sweets?
Hope you enjoyed the show and have a great Monday.
