Get started with painting mixed media faces
As artists, we know that feeling - the deep yearning to create a portrait that feels expressive and authentic! It's a powerful urge and if you've been building up the courage to put paint to paper - well, you're in the perfect place!
I’ve created this class to help you discover painting mixed media faces in a relaxed and perfectly imperfect way. To express yourself in exactly the WAY you want to! No rules. No judgment. Just pure creative joy!
“I related so well to the way Jenny was teaching, I was actually drawn into my art...”
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Only $57.00
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Are you looking for inspiration?
The Eyes of the Soul is a course to light your creative spark. You’ll feel inspired, energized and excited about creating faces in a fun and relaxed way. This is your step-by-step guide to create mixed media faces. One of the key things, when I create faces, is to work with several paintings at the same time. This prevents me from getting stuck when my paintings gets into the “ugly” phase. In this class we will work on three paintings simultaneously to prevent that we get stuck with one face but rather move on to the next to keep the flow and momentum going.
Lesson 1 - Get into your Flow
Get excited! You’ll watch and learn how to make a grungy background with collage and mark-making. By pulling together recycled materials we’ll focus on the act of making, rather than a perfect product.
These techniques will help you uncover how to
let go of your inner criticism and get into the flow, and
find the freedom to explore what feels good in the moment.
By the end of this part, you have started three paintings ready to build on!
Lesson 2 - Find the faces
Now it’s time to draw and paint the faces. You might love to draw faces or maybe you are not used to it at all but would like to start. It does not matter in what stage you are. I will show you my process and all my tricks and techniques that I use to get to find and create a face full of emotion and soul.
Before you know it, you’ll find a way that works for you. By the end of this part you’ll be itching to create several faces and you will have the tools to start exploring your own voice and style.
Lesson 3 - Eyes & Grunge
In the last couple of videos, I will show you how I paint the eyes and the final touches to my paintings. By leaving the eyes “open”, not painted, until the very end of the process I ensure that the piece can speak to me and give me access to the soul and the feel of the face I am painting.
By the end of part 3, you’ll have uncovered tools to create a face with confidence. You’ll be bolder and braver and have begun to find peace in letting go of expectations and finding your flow.
Are you ready to start?
So remember… the process and the time you spend creating is the purpose of the journey! The product is not the goal! I promise with this mind set, you will find this way of creating nourishing, inspiring and FUN!
I hope you will come along and join me!
Class Is Open!
Only $57.00
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What will you learn in this class?
I’ll help you uncover how to
Those looking to explore textures, color and mark-making.
Artists yearning to find joy and freedom in drawing and painting faces with depth and detail.
Those who want to create soulful eyes that tell the story of the painting.
Artists looking to create peace in their process by creating grunge and letting go of expectations.
Find your flow and focus on the process of making – without getting hung up on the end result.
It’s all inside you already. You just need to know how to access it, so you can enjoy the process without the pressure of perfection. This is how you’ll be able to keep creating long after the e-course has finished.
I know from the many hours I’ve put into my own practice and many thousands of students that this process works. Now it’s your turn to blossom and grow into the creator you were born to be.
The next step? Discover how to draw and paint faces with me by your side helping you learn and explore techniques that feel right for you.
HERE ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES OF Jenny's WORK
Class Is Open!
Only $57.00
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Supply List
There are not a lot of supplies needed for this class. If you have some kind of paper or cardboard, some matte medium or paper glue, some scrap paper for collage, some acrylic paint and a pencil you will be good to go and be able to do most of the lessons without any problems. Use what you have! Below is a list of the specific supplies I used in this class:
Material for the Collage
A couple of piece of Mixed Media or Multi technique paper.
An assortment of scraps of papers from personal collections, old books, old magazines, scrapbook paper etc.
Acrylic matte medium (I used Liquitex Matte Medium)
A hard tool (Palette knife or an old credit card)
Drawing
A pencil and/or charcoal for sketching. I used a Black Stabilo All, Aquarellable, (paper, glass, plastic and metal). My favorite pencils.
Paint and Mark-Making Tools
Acrylic Paints in the colors you love
Acrylic Ink in the colors you love
A couple of different size brushes, from very thin to wide and flat
A hard tool to move the paint (Palette knife or an old credit card)
Stamps, stencils, skewers and other mark making tools
A make up sponge for stencilling
Water spray bottle
Rags
Plastic lid as a palette