Making Faces

I like to draw faces in pencil and black sharpie and then I make copies of the faces. I then think of these like my own coloring book pages. I will then fill them in with painting, stenciling. stamping and collage. And somewhere I need to do a little stitching with a sewing machine. I made this face for Journalfest. This will go on the cover folder for my making faces class, each person in the class will receive a folder with instructions and one of these faces. I left some blank lines for journaling.

After
Before

Painted folders for Journalfest

I am making these folders for my classes at Journalfest. I

am painting sheets of heavy paper that I will fold into folders to to handout the instructions for the class.

First, I randomly paint colors on a sheet of paper with acrylic paints, I use

large cheap paint brushes or cosmetic sponges

Some sheets drying in the sun. I also like to sribble with crayons.

Then I start to layer more paint with stencils. This sheet of paper started life as my table cover, then I stenciled on top of that.

More layers with rubber stamps.

Instead of using a bone folder to fold the paper in half I used a large chunky crayon.

This make a nice colored edge.

More folders.