Meet Helena and Helen

A friend commissioned me to create these two girls.

Helena

Mixed Media

30cm x 42cm, 12" x 16"

It was challenging to work to a client's instructions and to lose creative control over my work. But I love them both and now see the artwork as a partnership.

 

Helen

Mixed Media

30cm x 42cm, 12" x 16"

Mixed media - monoprints for the clothes, hat and hair, watersoluble crayons, acrylic paints, pens and pencils.

Exploring Watercolor Portraits with Guada

For the past three weeks I have been participating in an online class taught by Guadalupe Brizuela Cabal called Exploring Watercolor Portraits. Guada was very generous and gaveaway two places in her class and I won one!

I had a great time and learnt so much, and I really loved Guada's style of teaching.

This was such a fun class and I'm able to paint the girls in my own style too adding some great headwear.

I even got some compliments on my girls from my husband and my mum!!  :D I can't wait to create some more.....

My New Buzz Cut

This week it was time to cut my hair off. It had become thin and scraggly, there was a lot on my comb and a lot on the bathroom floor too, so I decided it was time. There were no tears and no party as I imagined it to be, just hubby and I having a good time!! This is my favourite photo taken by my husband of me feeling my buzz cut for the first time. Love that feeling!!

Here's some before, during and after photos:

I ordered some caps to wear:

At the moment I'm feeling quite good, have recovered from the stem cell harvest and go into hospital for the transplant process on the 25th Aug - 11th Sept.

Take care, I'll be back next week with some girls I've created in Guada's Exploring Watercolor Portraits class.