Friday, April 15, 2011

Paper Portraits

"The Love Letter"

Going back over my photo files, I've rediscovered a favorite subject of mine - portraits. These are mostly fictional characters which I created a few years ago, using layered papers and Pigma pens.

"Suspicious"

In both of the above portraits I used different papers to play with the strands of hair, and commercial scrapbooking papers for the backgrounds.


I think the hand is too big in this one, or the mouth too small - haven't figured it out yet!


Last of all, a self portrait, called "Nature Filled", done as a result of an absolutely beautiful day, visions of which just stayed in my head for days.

Time to play with some new paper portraits -
coming soon!

Night Window


Simply put: scrapbooking paper, a paper doily, 
an exacto knife, scissors, and a bit of glue.

Tiny worlds waiting to be created -
a meditative and gratifying process!