Portraits

On saturday I made this frame for my craft room/office. It was the first time I had really made something in multiple weeks. I felt so good afterwards that I realized {once again} how much I missed making art and that it is so much more than a hobby for me. Just like some people need to excersize, I need to create. So today I made some over due family portraiture for the space above the ironing board.

So I started by printing out a full size image of C and then traced the outside lines of the image with a sharpie marker.

The Sharpie will bleed through the paper leaving the backside looking like this.

Next I cut the image out and traced the shape onto a 12x12 canvas.

I simply cut out the outside layer, traced it, cut the next layer, traced it and so on and so forth.

Then I took the tiniest paint brush in the world and jet black paint and went over my pencil tracings.

For fun I gave it a messy yellow border!

Now I still have to do one of Jones and myself and I will be able to look at the whole family while I make other works of art! what!