Module 5 Chapter 5

Colourful faces

I chose to colour my pencil drawing of myself without my glasses on and I chose pastels to create the colour.

I did have some texture on the face but I smoothed it away trying to get the colour that I wanted.

I then took my black and white drawing and did a couple of colour changes on the computer.  This didn't work out too well as the original had no colour to change.

This was a negative with some hand drawn lines for the hair

This was called green edges.

I had a look at Picassa on the computer but Google no longer support it so I wasn't sure how long it was going to last for so I went back to Paint Shop and had another go with the colour drawing.

This is called coloured edges and it picks up the outlines from the drawing and makes it much clearer.  I like what it has done to my drawing.

This was called coloured foil effect.  Turns me into an alien.

I labeled this with the effect I used but it didn't fit on and I can't read it now but it is some sort of blur effect.

This is another negative print changing the blue and the brown colours.

This was a swirl effect which just changes the whole shape.  It could be used as a boss in an old building.

I wanted to try and avoid stitching my portrait but ended up doing so anyway.  I started by transfering the black and white drawing onto fabric by attaching the material to freezer paper and running it through my computer printer.

I have then added coloured chiffon to the fabric using fuse FX (very fine bondaweb).

I then cut away the surplus chiffon using a soldering iron and following the lines of the drawing which were visible through the chiffon.

I covered the whole piece with some very fine chiffon scarf in white just to tone down the colour and trap the chiffon pieces.

I have then added stitch, outlining the features and adding some coloured thread to the hair.  It sort of floats on this piece of paper I found in my box and looks a bit ghostly.

I wondered if I could do anything else with the piece so I photocopied it and then cut the copy into two pieces and stuck them to this piece of coloured paper.  It fits quite well with the background.

Something else I did was to copy the coloured picture onto brown paper which I then scrunched up until it was quite soft.  It certainly adds some wrinkles!

I don't think I will ever make a portrait painter but this has been an interesting exercise.