Saturday, February 25, 2012

29 Faces and IA Weekly Challenge


Texture and 29 Faces
Day 25
This is my favorite imp, that rascal Puck.

I created this for the Inspiration Avenue challenge, Texture,
but since I've spent some time on his face,
I'm posting it for 29 Faces also :-)

Puck is strolling through the forest with a friend and looking for mischief.
 He may have found it in the floating fairy lights.
Care to play catch, Mr. Fox?

It's colored pencil and acrylic paint with bits of collage paper,
magazine pages, tissue paper, ribbon, and corrugated cardboard.
Did I forget anything? Oh, book pages. And who knows what else,
since I was pasting the kitchen sink on there to create some texture.

I've been visiting blogs and reading how texture has been difficult
to show in a scanned or photographed image.
Everyone is so right ~ it's tricky . . . my photos were showing
bumps and highlights where I didn't want them and
skipping right over the texture that I wanted to show up. Bleh.

I started this canvas a long time ago and thought it would be a good
candidate for the texture challenge. It doesn't resemble what I 
started with at all. You can see the original post here, along with
the insightful "critique" from my office assistant :)
No wonder it took me so long to complete it.
 Notice: where I was once going to put a cat,
there is now a fox. Sorry, Oliver.


Visit Inspiration Avenue on Sunday afternoon to see
the entries displayed in our gallery!

I hope you are enjoying the weekend...
Mother Nature has decided we needed a bit more snow.
What can I do but say 
“Thank you, but I hope we won't be needing any more after this.”
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23 comments:

  1. Great collage and what a colorful imp! Funny, we both redid a canvas for this and both had trouble capturing texture on camera. At least all the various papers of your collage show up when pointed out.

    Darla

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  2. Maggie,wow, that is fabulous! It is perfectly done!! love it! :)

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  3. Mischievous imp...love that sly grin...and the wolf...just beautiful!!

    Let's have dinner and then we'll buy a pie and make my dreams come true...lol

    bun

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  4. Mischievous imp...love that sly grin...and the wolf...just beautiful!!

    Let's have dinner and then we'll buy a pie and make my dreams come true...lol

    bun

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  5. Hi Maggie♥
    Puck is just the most wonderful, Pan-like boy! You really have a way with hair...and illustrating. Why aren't you doing children's books??? You have a gift of story telling too.
    I am glad I clicked back to the beginnings of Puck...that post is a favorite. Oliver. Is. So. Effing. Cute!
    And the weather, I guess we had it coming, but the wind makes me so nervous. ♥♥♥

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  6. Maggie I love what you've done with this, the textures are rich and interesting. And Puck is fab! His mischevious expression is perfect, and even his shoulders look pixie-like! x

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  7. Such a sweet little face. Love his hands too.

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  8. I LOVE your Puck, such animation you've given him! Also, I like all the layers of texture you've piled on here- wonderful!
    xo
    Stephanie

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  9. That's an awesome pixie face, I love it! Fabulous collage! <3

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  10. Firstly, I love our psychic link :-)) It comforts me to know we're still connected! I've now added text to my post which answers your question of how I am, what I've been up to and more about my work in progress. If you get chance to look :-)

    Secondly and importantly - I love the interesting textures you've created. They breathe life into the painting in a magical way. And Puck is very cute and mischeivious. I'm yet to see what it looked like before but this version is gorgeous.

    Thanks for the inspiration this week :-)

    Hugs
    Kat Xx

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  11. Awww, maggie, you flatter me. Thanks so much for the effusive compliments. It took me almost the whole week to get the confidence to even pick a subject. Then I found I loved the effect I was achieving so I did several more subjects! Hey, I discovered I can really sketch! Hehehe.
    I love your texture submission and great combination with faces. Love the texture in the background and puck's impish face! So well rendered!
    Best,
    Jenn of www.JustAddWaterSilly.com

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  12. Neat collage! You really achieved a lot of texture in that forest!

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  13. Puck looks impressively impish.Love his expressive face and green eyes! I am also seeing some texture techniques I love on the left!!

    Texture terrific!

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  14. This is a really good work of art. Love Puck. Watch out when he starts throwing those fairy lights around.
    :-)

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  15. Ah so lovely to be back and what a wonderful site to see, your Puck is so cute I love him, the eyes are amazing, great texture and I so love the fox.

    Will come visit more often again now!! 80))

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  16. Naughty Puck, always causing mischief! I love him and the fox.

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  17. What am adorable little wood sprite! I love all the elements you used for texture; amazing composition!

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  18. What am adorable little wood sprite! I love all the elements you used for texture; amazing composition!

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  19. It has been a joy to keep popping in throughout the challenge to see your gorgeous faces... I love Puck... you are incredibly talented...

    Hugs
    Jenny x

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  20. Puck is wonderful. A fabulous mischevious face.

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