00754, batch faces

The faces are getting out of hand.

00753, Zebra face

To make it look thinner:

00752, Flowerface

Flowerface is clearly a one word description.

Although it's not in the dictionary.

Yet.

00751, Return to the return etc. etc.

Topsoil came in today.

Difficult to get it up the drive.

Should probably look into getting a drive.

00750, Weeping face

Probably my fave so far.

Probably 'cos it didn't take long to do.

00749, Wilfred Owen face

Disabled - by Wilfred Owen.

An extract:

00748, Skull face

Can you even have a skull face. If anything it's a face skull.

Anyway:

00747, Cameau face

Oh, did I just frenchify an already French word?

00746, Simple grey face

I think it's just an undercoat.

I mean, really.

But I still quite like it.

00745, Ziggish

Ziggish: Like Ziggy.

Alt: Ziggyish

The growing collection is here.

00744, Backgammon again

Thought I'd lost these, couldn't find the original sketchbooks they came in.

Phew.

00743, Panel face

Difficult to have a name for some of these.

00742, Backgammon sketches

For a long time I took around a moleskine sketchbook with a stencil for making backgammon boards, so that I could draw inspiration from them and maybe find some way to print them onto the surface of a board, or whatever.

Haven't got round to it yet. But the sketches were quite nice (some of them are my daughters, obvs):

00741, Return to the return to the rock

Almost finished. Just need to tint the soil and add highlights thereupon:

00740, Metal face

Simple, one colour mix:

Using the new studio:

00739, Carrom

This is from a while back, but left without posting.

A present for a friend - which is fine, until you consider giving someone a really big object and effectively saying, "Here, put this somewhere in your house and let it define you daily - if only because of how much space it takes up."

Oh, and it's Carrom. Think pool meets air hockey. The playing pieces are basically draughts counters.

Birch ply playing surface +walnut cushions = nice:

The design is now a standard for any on-wood graphics for me - multiple, sanded coats of varnish, followed by graphics airbrushed through stencils, followed by multiple, sanded coats of varnish. A graphics sandwich, if you will - meaning the paint won't soak into the wood, degrading the sharpness of the design, and the top coat protects against wear.

Process porn: