I had some down time over the weekend after finishing up some jobs (Woop woop! Just in time for the holidays!) so that meant making one of my favorite things: PORTRAITS!!!!!
CHECK THE TECHNIQUE:
I wanted to see what would happen when I combined my usual black tea splashes (this time around I used Whole Foods brand of 365) and Tazo's Passion Fruit tea. I'm trying to work out putting in more colors into my artwork. Although the Tazo tea is in fact a lovely burgundy red in my teacup, it dries uber purple. SURPRISE!
DOUBLE TAKE THE FACE:
Maybe I was exhausted or something but none of these portraits look like who they were intended to be. Louise Brooks looks like no one in particular. My Feist turned into Esthero. Louisa May Alcott feels more like Princess Beatrice, and Coretta Scott King looks like Whitney Houston (post Bobby Brown?). Isadora Duncan and Annie Oakley...got close but not enough.
They still turned out pretty cool even though they didn't exactly turn out how I wanted them to... ya know, like most children when they grow up.
