Not sure about this one

This is my offering for Week 4 of Doodles Unleashed and I am really not too sure about this one at all. It is the first time I have tried to do a face of any kind and I think maybe I need a lot more practice. I think mine looks more like Medusa than girlie glam - but never mind. I have had great fun doing this course and would certainly like to explore more of these techniques - so watch this space.

Over at HeART&Soul we are having an ATC swap running throughout the year. These are the two ATCs I have made for it so far, December and January. Each month there is to a technique, for December it was masking and for January it was bling.

Doodles Unleashed Wk 2

This weeks project at Doodles Unleashed over at Strathmore Artists Online was using watercolours. I used a couple of different colours of watercolour paints and different sizes of brushes and just made marks freely. I then stamped an image a couple of times, then used a flower as a stencil, spritzed with Glimmer Mists, then more doodling on the top. We were supposed to use a really large sheet of  paper but this was the largest I had, so I used it. It was good fun - not as vibrant as last weeks but still enjoyable.

For January's Handmade Item over at thefeltfairyuk I have crocheted another table mat. I did last year and had some cotton left so have made another one in slightly different colours. It uses various cotton wools.

Doodles Unleashed Wk 1

Traci Bautista over at Strathmore Artists is holding a FREE workshop called Doodles Unleashed over the next four weeks. Well as it was free I just had to sign up for it, didn't I? I have just managed to finish week 1 project in time for week 2 going up tomorrow.

This is my first attempt at this sort of mixed media style and while I found it fun, I think I did find it a bit difficult to just 'let go' and probably tried to follow the video a bit too closely.  I think I shall probably try another one and see what happens.

First I used some glimmer mists over various things for stencils and then added lots of acrylic paints, a bit of a colour wash, then some layers of oil pastels, some ink and then used some markers.  Not sure if it is too busy or not.