You can find the full list of all 7 Weeks of Creative Celebrations here.

Welcome to Week 5 of 7 Weeks of Creative Celebrations!

This week’s featured class: Faces – Mixed Media Portraits.

It’s all about playful color, so we’re painting faces with freedom and joy — trusting our intuition and seeing where the layers want to take us.

I’m also happy to continue my gratitude sale: 50% off my most-loved online classes with lifetime access.

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Let’s paint!

This Week’s Mini-Class: Faces, Mixed Media Portraits

We’re continuing the celebration with a full-length tutorial from my Faces: Mixed Media Portraits class. You can explore the full course here.

In this project we’re going to create a face with lots of color and paint outside the lines. So often when I paint a face, I draw the shape first, pencil in my features and then paint in my color. So this tutorial is meant to help you find more freedom in your faces.

I’ll be creating in my sketchbook, but feel free to use canvas or any loose paper for this project (watercolor paper, bristol paper etc.)

ART SUPPLIES:

*paper/sketchbook (I’m using an 8×8” sketchbook by Cachet)
*bleeding art tissue paper (regular tissue paper is fine too)
*origami papers
*glue (I’m using golden gel medium, but my favorite glue is Liquitex Matte Medium, it’s less sticky)
*Caran d’Ache Neocolor II Artists’ Crayons
*paint pens (floresent pink and white)
*stabilo pencil (black)
*crayola crayons
*washi tape
*oil paintsticks

THINGS TO REMEMBER

*I always begin every painting by covering up the white space. This allows my underneath layers to show through in the final painting and creates lots of depth.

*Since I know my first layers will be covered up, I don’t pay too much attention to what paper is going where. I just have fun with it and feel freedom.

*The one thing I DO pay attention to, as I glue down collage materials, I try and keep in mind where my eyes will be and avoid adhering papers in those areas (it’s much harder to cover up and can mean a paper crease where I don’t really want one).

ART TIP

As you create, pay attention to what you’re having the most fun with – what colors really pop out at you, what supplies do you really love to use. Keep doing more and more of your favorite things to continue to develop your style.

Happy painting!

xo Juliette