Thursday, September 5, 2013

Red, Being a Winner and 29 Faces: 5-7

Five
 

Polo Man
encaustic on birch 6 x 6
In keeping with trying new things - I did just that.  Polo Man here is inspired by the lovely work of Christine Striemer.  She is also participating in 29 Faces.  She uses a red tinted background to do her portraits - so thought I'd give it a try because I love the results she gets and her portraits are fabulous.

He came out super textured which I'm still debating if I like for portraits in wax - but seems to be what I'm getting lately.  I also tried a new encaustic painting technique that encaustic artist Willow Bader uses.  She actually squeezes oil paint onto her hot palette and mixes the colors with wax.  I'm not sure yet - but I have my palette set up that way at the moment.  He's also the by product of working in acrylics for faces.  I can actually see a difference in this guy after I've done a few with paint.  Lots to learn.

Six and Seven

The Ladies
encaustic on masonite 10 x 10

More new things: 
I also was the lucky winner of Martha's giveaway on her blog - Ayala Art.  I was the winner of her Basic Face Workshop.  I've learned so much.  Thank you Martha - and I can't say enough, that if you want to learn the basic face - sign up for Martha's workshop!!  The Ladies above are a result of the class and its been fun to play around with what all can be done and the many styles for the face.  I'm coming to realize that my faces look the same - I can move eyes wider, make noses longer, what ever, but they all sort of come back to what they are... so there I have it - a style :)

Happy Friday.   Hit the buttons below and go see some fabulous art.


29 faces

32 comments:

  1. OH mY Goodness, how did you do this???
    What iron did you use? I cant even imagine doing this kind of detail with wax
    He is indeed magnificant

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  2. I love your faces!!!! Your man is amazing.... I just can't get men's faces or is that I just can't get men ? :)

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  3. Beautiful encaustic art! Love your technique. Happy PPF!

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  4. Beautiful portraits. Love all the texture and color. Doing encaustic portraits must be a challenge.

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  5. "Polo man" is wonderful painting, it is really painting. Good colors, well painted, lively brush lines and .... It is really wonderful.
    All paintings are fresh and beautiful. You are artist, I must say.
    Thank You, this is my morning, I saw these.
    Now I must leave to help my mom, but I take these paintings in my mind that way.

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  6. So fun to see some other 29 Facers at the Paint Party!
    You've done lovely work.
    Rinda

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  7. Polo man is simply amazing... I love all those hints and bits of colour that are shining through... they make it so wonderfully textured and complex... and congrats on being a winner... very cool!!

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  8. Fantastic work, the faces are all wonderful. Valerie

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  9. Just stunning portraits, love them!The colors and textures: delicious!

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  10. great portrait practice and fantastic textures. Thank you for sharing

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  11. Your portraits are amazing. I love how real Polo man looks and your ladies are beautiful. You definitely do have a wonderful style.

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  12. I love polo man....he is stunning...such a handsome character!! The ladies are precious too! I love your style so much...always a thrill to visit and hear what you have to say!! Going to visit the people that inspired you.

    Hugs Giggles

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  13. These faces are just wonderful! Great that you're doing 29 faces again!

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  14. I really admire your encaustic portraits!
    So ambitious and lovely.
    ♥♥♥
    Happy PPF!!
    Mary
    Mixed-Media Map Art

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  15. I ADORE your encaustic painting!!

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  16. Fantastic, these are really beautiful and polo man just pops with that red....xox

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  17. I love your portraits! And congrats on winning the workshop. :)

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  18. Polo Man is fabulous - what a chiselled jaw and aquiline nose!! I love your faces - I'm not sure you needed any lesson in portraiture as you were already pretty amazing!

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  19. wow!!! wonderful faces....love the depth!!! Have a wonderful weekend!!!

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  20. congrats on your win and you are really good at these portraits, just wow.

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  21. I especially love your encaustic piece, great work!!

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  22. Your 5, 6, and 7 faces are all beyond words, Marji. I don't know how you (and Christine) do that work, but it certainly is effective. Your work with encaustics is exemplary.

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  23. They have so much depth and personality. You really draw us in with the eyes and distinct features and everything softened a bit by the style. Amazing work.

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  24. these are gorgeous Marji- I love the depth and richness of the shading and coloring!

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  25. Wonderful faces Marji. The colours in the mans face look amazing and I love the composition of the two women with one in front of the other.

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  26. I'm trying to look at everyone's blogs who has posted to 29 Faces, but I guess I'm not being very systematic, because here I am again. And I must say that these are fabulous faces. I think it's soooooooo neat how people (as in, grown up people) learn stuff. And the only way to do it is to try stuff out, which you are totally doing--with techniques, styles, and even palattes (I know that's spelled wrong).

    Wow.

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  27. Wow, excellent faces Marji. Lots of wonderful color and texture. Very nice. Thank you.
    gloria

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  28. ok, marji,,,, i'm loving your use of encaustics. fabulous work. polo man has so much depth. how do you ever achieve that?

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  29. These portraits are amazing. Your work turns out to be wonderful for a first timer. I would love to know more about how you did each one. I would never guess one could work on masonite. . .whoa! Blessings, Janet PPF

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  30. i love your faces they are fantastic

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