Tranquillity

Face 24

Face 24 of 29 Faces is depicting my need for some quiet time.  I know when I have to step back and rest as I start to make silly mistakes.

In this case it proved to be a bonus.  The above was just the face and hair with a plain background.  I had used my new Inktense pencils and while munching on my tomatoes and crackers at lunch wondering whether to add water, a slice of tomato slid off and landed on my lovely picture!  So now I had a patch of smeared pencil that was stained red - they were very juicy tomatoes.  Now I had no choice, and I had to add a background as the tomato had stained the white background.

I sat looking at it and thought, she looks as if she is floating in water on her back, which I wished I was doing instead of here in the oppressive heat wave we are having. So, my goddess turned into Ophelia!  She really is not drowning herself; she is just floating along dreaming of tranquillity.

Face 25

So in the quest of finding that quiet I am going to take tomorrow off.  But so that I don’t get behind in my faces here is Face 25 - a quick digital drawing I did in Photoshop.

I haven’t just been doing faces, this week I managed to squeeze in this gouache of my begonia that resides on top of the fridge.  I love all forms of begonias from the garish bedding ones to the exotic houseplants.  My Dad used to bred them in his nursery and whenever I look at them I remember him with love.  I still have some tubers of his and they are still flourishing every year despite being about 10 years old.

The scripture I am taking into the coming week is: Instead, your beauty should consist of your true inner self, the ageless beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of the greatest value in God's sight. 1Pe 3:4  GNB. 

Have a lovely week creating wonderful art all you lovely bloggers and see you next week.  Blessings. 

 I am linking this to Sunday Sketches, check out the wonderful art there.