29faces Face #2 Taylor Negron

Face #2 in the 29 faces challenge is Taylor Negron, who passed away Janurary, 10, 2015. exactly one year before David Bowie  (They both died from liver cancer, kinda creepy).

I only found out he passed away because of my research, and it surprised me, he was such a familiar face. He was an actor, a comedian, a painter, and a playwright. 

I knew  him from his T.V. appearances and smaller parts in movies, he always left an impression.

How could you not remember that smile? 

29faces Face #1 David Bowie

 I first knew him as the goblin king, I was raised watching Labyrinth. The oldest of three children, each of us loving and watching  Labyrinth  multiple time a week, I have it imprinted into my brain and can recite most of the movie. My husband knows I quietly mouth the words if we watch it, but I can't just mouth the words when the songs come one. I am compelled to sing.

As I grew older I recognized his songs on the radio and the references to him in other movies (Like the Wedding singer). Most of my friends didn't know him till I sang them 'Under pressure' or somehow got them to watch Labyrinth. When I was in my early twenties I watched him in  'The man who fell to earth' simply because he starred in it.

I was not old enough to know who Ziggy Stardust was, or how much David Bowie had changed music or his fashion over the years. I just knew he was cool and I liked him.

When  he passed away, the child in me was heartbroken, we had lost the goblin king...

I did not draw a picture of Jareth the goblin king though, I drew a picture of David Bowie

It's not as close of a likeness as I would like but for not drawing in almost a year I'm happy with how he turned out.  And yes his eyes are that way on purpose, did you know that David Bowie had Anisocoria - a condition where the pupils are different sizes?

1 face down, 28 to go.

29faces September Challenge faces #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24

Ok, I got my commission work done, which got me as far as face #24 (I actually forgot one and though I was only at #22, I was a little disappointed)

Face #16 Killian

Faces #17, #18, and #19 the whole family.

Faces #20, #21, #22 The whole family (I did this one first but I didn't like how her son turned out so I did the other family portrait as well)

Faces #23 and #24 Father and Son

September 2014 Face #12... I think...

Home improvements have taken over my free time but at least I don't have a gaping hole in my living room wall anymore :)  I was able to carve out sometime tonight  and got a face done. Tomorrow I'm taking a well deserved break and hopefully will be able to catch up on my faces.

Face #12 was a request...a very insistent request from my facebook page.

John Wayne.

September 2014 faces #8 and #9

Woot! Two more faces done, another couple, this time in charcoal. 

I'm still behind, but I'm getting closer.

September 2014, face #5

It's been a busy two days. I am remodeling the upstairs of my house and removing a fireplace in the downstairs (which will need a new wall put up before it rains), we also got an impromptu roommate last week when a friend lost his apartment, to say my house is a chaotic is an understatement. To top it all off , yesterday I found out I lost one of my jobs, the steady one that paid the rent, I have mixed feelings about it, I was talking with my business partner about  absolving that business at the end of the year, I just wasn't planning on it happening this soon....

My point in sharing isn't for sympathy, I know this is the flow of life, out with the old, in with the new. But I think it's the reason this next face turned out so well (he's my favorite so far this challenge). I've noticed that my best art comes out during times of heightened emotion, Happy, Sad, Stressed, Depressed. It doesn't matter what feeling it is, the excess emotions spills out into my art and makes something amazing (At least I notice a difference in quality).

See for yourself...

Face #5....

I could of done his hair better (hair seems to be my weakness, I just can't get any of it right), but I love his nose, eyes, and eyebrows.

The inspiration....