Two different "L"

After I finished drawing these hands, I stopped to think one was "love" and the other one a sign of "looser". Funny that I have those two L letters together... :oB

I finished the page of the face I showed yesterday, will post it tomorrow.
The teams for the "Exquisite corpse" are selected (what is that? well, google it, but we are aiming for whimsical, not too grotesque!) So anyway... soon we will be mailing each other drawints to finish together.... Another activity from the 29 faces group.
If any other person would like to participate in "spontaneous"  collabs and challenges, just let me know!

WIP and 4 hands

I am working on another page in my journal, this is the first scary step:

More WIPs coming soon...

I have to say, out of all the things I have penciled in my life, baby hands are the hardest! I made a few that I had to destroy, they were terrible lol Finaly I made an adult hand to go as a visual reference, because my baby hands were looking like fat decrepit monster hands
ლ(ಠ_ಠლ) ugh!

 Also, I guess I ended up making them too light, because my scanner didn't want to catch the detail unless it was ALL detail including paper edges, wrinkles and all lol Some days are like that :oP


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Three more hands

You'll guess these right away!

 

I am having a lot of fun with the hands but I think I got in too many things this month! lol

Today I worked on the little face of a doll, visiting me from Australia. Since it is painted, I will show tomorrow the picture in this blog as well, I just need good lighting for it, the first I took had very sharp shadows. Can't believe we are reaching the 90's this early!

Crazy hand and cute video

Remember I mentioned a witch hand some days ago? Well, it is finally going to get posted. So much stuff going on I had almost forgotten, poor hand:

And since this one is fantasy (and ugly!), I will also post a fantastic video (and super cute!)
Enjoy:


the Scared is scared from Bianca Giaever on Vimeo.

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Face in the World update

With so many things going on, I completely forgot to post about the amazing collab we are doing in my team #3 in Face in the World!
This one was started in charcoal by Marji,  her blog is HERE
Then Sandra transformed her with beautiful shades of blue. Visit her blog HERE.
Here is what I received in the mail:

Blank background ready for me to play with! Took me a couple of days to feel the direction to follow, then I just went for it. I really didn't want to cover the face so.... I cloned it! :oD

 

I collaged another face and layered it with flesh tones, then I used fluid acrylics for the background. Now I just wonder what Manon is going to do next!

Also, here are 3 more hands for my "Hands in April" challenge:

They are "1", "3" and "4". I didn't make "2" because it looks too close to the "peace and love" I made already :oP

 Oh, Oh, OH!! I am so thrilled to hear I was the lucky randomly selected artist to be a PPF Painting Spotlight ♥ HERE

Thanks for visiting! ....Any more input on hands? ;o)

Another Art Journal page

I didn't want to post anything yesterday, with all the terrible news from Boston.
Today I have this page which started as a more angular design, got lost in the layers, took a very scary turn until finally ended in something I agreed with. Has a little collage rice paper:

Thanks for visiting, have a wonderful day ♥

20 minutes...?

I have been timing myself to paint a bit faster in the hopes to loose my brush work. I get too much into detail and although it can be fun, I also admire the more abstract, free paintings.
So.. it was great to find Gritty Jane doing a "20 minute painting" activity. Perfect timing for me.
Now the thing is... do I stop at 20? So far I have, look a the piece... and keep going a bit more hahaha
I just can't help myself! But it is a nice incentive, to have the impending time stop. For those that perform better under pressure, you should try it!
This is my 20 minute stop:

 

This is a few minutes later:

Few more minutes...

And this is where I finally stopped. I regret nothing! :oD

I was so caught up in this, that I didn't even think of hands.
But that's ok. Thanks for your visit and your wonderful comments. ♥
Since it has details in orange, it's going to the "Mandaring Orange Monday"

Goodies and a video!

These are some goodies I bought from Michaels: A large journal (9x12/ 23x30.5 cms) and some little dye pads with awesome colors! I'm sure they are not waterproof but that's ok.

Also my desk was re organized a bit and I discovered the hand made journal I started last year following a tutorial by Teesha Moore, it ended up under some books to make it flat; so I'm working on it and decided to start painting on it too. So exciting!

I really don't know why I have this journal fever now. I love books, but I like working on non-attached paper, so go figure.

Look for more pages shown as I work on them, I am having ideas overflowing my head!

And now.... here is the video from yesterday's post:


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See you tomorrow, I'll be posting more hands!

Well then...

Some days are so frustrating! yesterday was one of those days... too many little annoying things to mention, and no internet connection. I just kept telling myself "this is nothing, this is nothing."

I decided to dedicate the time to paint and plan projects and better yet, take a video! I had everything settled down, clicked to start and after a few minutes puff! The battery died. And of course I am using the camera that uses a rechargeable battery. Which takes like 3 hours to recharge. ლ(ಠ_ಠლ)  agh!
So I got the other camera, went to get ready for another painting and I cut my finger with something invisible. lol I have no idea what it was! But a chunk of flesh was missing from my index and it hurt a lot! Well then! 
I decided to take a deep breath and do something else.

At night the stars were better aligned I think, because everything went smoother. With a bandaged index I started a new page in my art journal and today I finished it, the video will come soon (hopefully!)

Dream!
Update: Thanks for all your comments! My finger healed after 2 days, just a little red dot now ♥ The video is HERE

I hope your day is beautiful and harmonious.

More hands and a video

For my hands today: Tah-Daaaaa! Hand painting nail polish to another hand. Thanks for the suggestion! ♥

I bumped into a cool hands video. This is kind of close to the way I draw my hands, only I do it by hand B>) ...and make my lines outside, not just small marks for the fingers, but that's drawing preference mostly.
The music is a bit repetitive and annoying IMO, so maybe you can just turn off the sound. It worked for me ;o)