Mix-Ability challenge - Faces

 This week's Mix-Ability challenge was to include a face on our projects - here's my piece - this is a 5" x 6" piece of matboard that I had left over from the pieces I use to back my art prints.

I have a collection of canvas panels, matboard, tags and wood pieces at the side of my desk - they receive my extra paint when I am working on other projects, and that is how I build up backgrounds with random colors in preparation for new projects. It's a lot of fun, and they're just ready there for me to grab when I actually have time and brain space to do original artwork. 

This is a piece of matboard that had some teal, silver and grey watercolor and acrylic splotches on it - I sketched onto the board with pencil and then pen, colored in with some colored pencil, and then fingerpainted with some white acrylic to add highlights and cover a few dark areas. The background was stamped with some hand carved stamps, vintage stamps, and collage stamps I keep handy. 

The sentiment is from my line of stamps at Impression Obsession, and that butterfly is from Jim Stephan.

 I think I'll add this piece to my Etsy store - I'd love to sell more original artwork there!