Sunday, September 15, 2019

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 HEREYou can also enjoy this class by joining Effy's Patreon account and paying monthly. 

6 comments:

  1. Love the turquoise in particular. What are glazes?

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    1. Yes having a bit of a love affair with Turquoise at the moment. Glazes are just a really thin layer of paint - I use Goldens transparent paint and even water that down with some glazing medium or water so it's only a hint of colour and you can still see what's beneath.

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  2. Well your effort paid off- she's quite lovely!

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    1. Thanks Nancy - she's not a favourite but happy with her now. Lots of learning!

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  3. What a cool page! I really like he fan theme - so much possibility there - will have to keep that in mind! I bet you had fun at your girly gathering - I'll look out for some photos! xx

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    1. Thanks. I loved the idea of the face and fan but VERY challenging. Yes fab girly gathering - not many photos this time but will probably get a mention in my monthly review ;-)

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