A Year of Rumi : fan your flame

Last weekend I had a wonderful Girls' gathering away at the beach sandwiched between 2 extra busy weeks at work. Finally I've had time to complete another art journal spread. It's been almost a month since I shared my previous page in my altered art journal, repeating a prompt from Effy's A Year of Rumi online class. Our Rumi quote for July inspired a fan shape in Effy's original art page and in my own art card HERE

I loved the fan and decided it would be lovely to have one also in my art journal along with a face. I was also inspired to use Turquoise and Red together again and thus my background began : 

She has really taken her time in emerging in sometimes difficult ways....

Red glaze finally made me happy with the fan

But that was a much easier fix than her face....got her eye position far too low to begin with but didn't realise until I stepped back to work out why she didn't feel right {a lot of courage to share this!}

Quite a lot of reworking to get the eye to here....but she still doesn't have the right expression for the fan - not flirtatious enough 

I lowered her upper lid and added the extra white pen details. Also had to rework her hairline a little bit before I was happy

Finally I'm calling her done

Find out more about the "A Year with Rumi" class with Effy Wild HERE. You can also enjoy this class by joining Effy's Patreon account and paying monthly.