Party Girl with Brown Paper Flowers

thank you Yanmos..this was the original ! :D

thanx Susan!! :D
this was the first one i created

..you’re joking of course :D

thank you so much Amber,
it makes me so happy to think of you smiling there!!

yes, fa encouraged me to put it up also :D
thank you ellen, i am very glad you like it !

Hi fa…it was funny how that happened..
I’ve seen another artist who does portraits over the top of this type of rough paint work ….and it has always fascinated me….. one day – not long ago…i was waiting for work to upload and Scott to print things off on the giclee machine…and getting restless waiting to get back on the computer….so i tore off brown paper from a huge roll and began cutting it into pieces and folding in half…i then got a syringe full of white acrylic gesso filled it and started squirting onto the paper, and came up with shapes by folding the paper…i don’t quite know how it came about…but i then got a large brush and just started fooling around, and laid down some white paint strips horizontally…then i liked how ‘raw’ it looked…and thought …hmm once this is dry i’m gonna try to draw over the top and see what happens…. because the paint dries so fast being acrylic…and i love gesso…because of it’s chalky grip…i just went straight ahead, and was very surprised how nicely my new black felt tip pens ran over the surface….not catching….and i enjoyed the process so much…i found i could simply draw freehand from my brain to my hand, without even a pencil drawing underneath at times…and it really appeals to me being able to do a fast piece and then fill in with just a little pastel afterwards….
the brown paper gives the skin such a wonderful warm tone…there is very little else for me to do…except cut it out in photoshop and apply the different ways for cards and tshirts…..so there it is in a nutshell….it just came about….there was no thought behind it, just a feverishly bored moment which if I hadn’t have had to wait and be stuck and bored, would never ever ever have eventuated in a million trillion years!!! lol

thank you very much Robin…it was funny how it happened…i’ve done quite a few of these now (6 or 7 i think) and never get bored with it!!

lol..thx fa…i think i babbled on about it to you another time…
but when you see the original it’s weird as it can’t be framed…
due to it just being on scrappy brown paper….not used to doing things like that!! :D

aw, thanx so much Ana :D

thank you Lori,
she was a lot of fun to create!

many thanx to you MissKoo! :D

wow! thnx so much Nira!!!

o that’s so cool Paola!
I’m so glad it’s nice! :D

thank you very much Robin!

.....of course!! a tea party….what could be nicer!!!
i just had a tea party a few minutes ago…very enjoyable stuff.!
so glad you like this version too..the original

thank you lol….
you’re very kind Karen :D
yes…spontaneity can provide us with such freedom we don’t know ourselves from the usual controlled version!

thx very much Alf! :D

thanx very much Robin…normally i wouldn’t try it…but it was just a spontaneous bit of fun…sometimes it worx :D sometimes it doesn’t :D lol

thank you so much Shell!!
and a big Happy Birthday to Elli for the special day by the way!!

thx so much margaret! :D

oh that’s great, am so glad I uploaded it now :D

thank you very much Gudrun!! :D

thank you so much Ellen!

aw, thanx so much marlaakajake!!! :D

thanx heaps Mel…and i’m glad you enjoyed ‘the process’ too :D

thank you so much pinky!! :D

aw, thank you so much Mariaan !!