Rain's Thursday Art Date: Put a face on it

Today Rain is asking us to put a face on things.  I'm not someone who draws, so there will be few NO instances of those.

Meet my alter ego, Wendy.  I created her for the first What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday anniversary.  Like me, she has very short hair except for the bangs that hang down over her eyes.  And like me, she loves to wear dresses instead of slacks.  It's obvious I'm not a seamstress, but I cobbled her together and she's been around for over 11 years now and still looking fine. 

I created this for a challenge.

One year I created over 50 of these pasta angels to give my friends.  Each one was created specifically for the recipient.  I used one end of a skewer to create the eyes and the tip of the skewer to create the whites of the eyes.  I drew the smiles with the skewer tip, too after an art friend showed me how and where to place them..

This was a book I made for a friend.  Each page was a different letter.  I'm focusing on the word Idea and that face.

From the same book, both sides, "V" and "W" have "faces."

This was for a geometric challenge.  My idea of a "person," I suspect!

The postman was from a magazine, and the wreath and gift were wood cuts I colored and added.  I also colored the images using water soluble crayons.

I made this art quilt as a Christmas gift for a friend who makes art similar to this.  It was my homage to her art.

This index card from 2016 is a play on words and images which resulted when I stamped the face and added the sheet music.

This is from my alpha-numeric dictionary year long challenge.

It's a rather sad close up, though.

This is the front of my RUST altered book which is a three ring binder that holds all the art I received in two swaps.

For the first anniversary of WOYWW, we didn't exchange ATCs, but small gifts.  I made this art quilt and sent to my Pay-it-forward partner.

You don't have to tell me I had a pitiful camera when I took this photo of an art quilt I made which was a gift to a friend.

One of my favorite artists is Piero Fornasetti, the Italian painter and interior decorator. He is probably best known to altered artists for his engravings, specifically the woman who it seems every rubber stamp company copies. Fornasetti created more than 500 variations on the face of opera singer Lina Cavalieri, whose picture he found in a 19th century magazine.

I used my large face stamp as a background, but I never quite got a good image. It's hard to tell there are 8 faces on the two pages.

I realize I showed this last week, but I didn't do much better when I was in a swap and stamped the Lina Cavalieri face.  The smaller face was created using faux shrink plastic (#6 plastic) after I stamped the image before shrinking.  That's when I learned #6 plastic shrinks better in one direction than the other.

These were three ATCs for a swap.  Yes, that is some of my textured handmade paper.

I created another one of these ABC books for another friend.  Both sides of this have faces.

The Humboldt penguin was for a challenge I created in my Challenges altered book.

Polymer clay faces I made for a tutorial.

You can see no matter how hard I try, I keep getting my fingernails stuck in the unbaked clay.  It seems to be amplified once baked!

I didn't draw this Easter bunny, but I colored her outfit and basket.

I found this quote and went looking for an image to go with it.  I think I got it right.

I laughed when I saw the bear, so used it in a mixed media challenge.


Now let's switch gears.

Here are some art faces that sit in my home.  Yes, that's a nude.

A photo of Dwight David Eisenhower's statue taken last autumn when I visited his museum and boyhood home.

This statue is from the Wichita, Kansas botanical gardens.

This is one of Wichita Art Museum's most famous and loved paintings.  It is a Mary Cassatt, one of only three famous female impressionists in the world.

From the same museum this an Edward Hopper, the same artist who painted Nighthawks.  

And how can we ignore the real face of this blog?

Wow, the flash does nothing for him.

And of course, the newest member of the blog: Squiggles.
Bleubeard is resting,

while Squiggles insisted on throwing everything he could find in the water bowl, much to the chagrin of Bleubeard.

Look at Squiggles' cute pink nose.

Possibly the best photo I have of Squiggles, even though he doesn't like to sit for a photo.

All art created by me.  All photos taken by me.

Thank you beyond belief for visiting today.  I am truly grateful to you, my friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for taking time out of your day.  Bleubeard and I hope to also see you at Rain's Thursday Art Date.   Bleubeard was a bit miffed that Squiggles got the last word, though.