Friday, February 27, 2026

Friday Face OFF

 

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.
As you know it's been a tough lupus week and art was put to the side. 
Again this week older faces. A few years back I had a show for clay. It could be anything clay so I went with dolls and faces.
  
 
This is all clay wrapped around twigs, then painted.
A clay face painted then placed on fabric and embellished with beads. 
One of my spirit dolls places on a painted canvas. 
This one sold right away. Clay face painting with matt pigment.

 Of course I had some crazy                 faces.


 For some reason people loved these       flat face and sold right away.


 

Then my good friend Donna wanted a Whizzed. I had so much fun creating this.

 I love his face


 There is a lot of embellishment on this doll


 

 Every whizzed needs a skull, a mirror, and a scarab


 Donna sent a t-shit with this
moon on it that she wanted incorporated. 


I had a lot of spirit dolls at the show


 And all different faces of        these 

 
Here are some AI from a contest that is going on over at NightCafe
  

 
It's time for some features.
 
Heidrum she has a lovely blog.
The best street photos
Reminders. FFO Challenge.
Create a face that is one or all of these expressions.
Happy, Sad, Tired, Surprised. Showing will be Friday April 24, 2026. You have 9 weeks. Any medium accepted.
Also join in with SITAR. Anything Art.
 
That's it for me. 
Now show me your face.   
Nicole  

Thursday, February 26, 2026

New Paper

 Hi Everyone!
I'm feeling much better. Actually stayed up all day today. I have a lupus rash on my stomach and arms. Soooo annoying.  I do have a cream for it. This will pass too.
 
I mentioned in a previous post that I 
ordered some new art paper. I needed some larger sizes. There is an art store in Coos Bay that has a great selection of art paper and the prices reasonable. OMG! They closed at the end of Dec. last year. It upsets me to see a privately owned business of any type close.
I found that DickBlick was having a sale and ordered paper.  It took 11 days for it to arrive via FedEx. Finally it showed up yesterday. The paper was packaged extremely well. 
I've never used FABRIANO paper before. 
Have you?
I'm going to try some this weekend.
I have a few projects in mind for the Stathmore 24x18" So much fun getting art supplies.
Hope all are well.
Nicole