Art Journal January Day 6

Day 6 - wow, I am really enjoying the time I take each day to art journal. It is such a fun experience, and is helping me to find myself. I have been trying some new techniques. Some more effective than others, but it is a learning experience.

Here I have used the alcohol inks to draw a simple tree shape. I added a gel medium transfer, and lots of doodling.
The background is paper snippits covered with gesso, some stamped images of eyes, and a healthy dose of distress ink.
I chose to address what a tree means to me, and how I feel about my family.

Art Journal January DAY 6

This is my art journal January Day 6 - Self Portrait.

Wow- This was at first a really intimidating prompt. But the more I thought about it the more excited I got about it. The prompt was just the "excuse" and kick in the butt I needed to push me to try to do a realistic face sketch. I feel like now I need to keep going. I am not saying it is great, but there are parts of this sketch that I am actually kind of proud of. The funny thing is, I took SuziBlu's class on Petite Dolls, and she taught us about eyes, and the part I think I did the worst job on was the eyes. Somehow they are not level, and not the same size....Well, I won't go into it, but the part I really like, which is crazy, is my chin and actually my double, double chin. I really have a chin like that, and I think I captured it quite realistically. I know that sounds really bizarre, but hey, we all have parts of us that are "real" and I am not going to hide the fact that I have a poochy chin, so I might as well be real about it- right?

Anyway, here I am in all my sketchiness :0)