I am primarily a cloth doll artist and so I love faces. I am drawn to faces and so I draw them everywhere. Thing is, that many people are scared of drawing faces. But faces don't have to be hard. Start off by incorporating some simple faces into your art with these tutorials that make incorporating faces into your mixed media art work a piece of cake.
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Learn how to draw faces in mixed media art with Julie Nutting, author of Collage Couture: Techniques for Creating Fashionable Art
Make a very Picasso-esque sculpture with some cubist style faces using wire and gauze. Click the link to get the tutorial on Creativity Direct.
This tutorial on Creativity Direct shows you how basic and cartoony faces can look fantastic in mixed media art work. Click the link to learn how to make these hanging painted canvas figures.
If you really want to mix up your media why not try incorporating some needlework? Use this free face cross-stitch chart created by Romona King of Northbrook Stitches to create a beautiful face, cross-by-cross.
Then make the cross stitch face into an ornament with another free tutorial from Romona.
Another approach to including a doll face in a mixed media piece is to use clip art. Download a free vintage image of a woman and make an elegant hankie doll ornament with a tutorial on Vintage Image Craft.
If you'd love to incorporate a face into your artwork, but fear of drawing stops you, then why not download a free face template designed by Alma Stoller, available on the Cloth Paper Scissors website.
Alma Stoller also has a tutorial on her blog where she shows you how to carve your own features of the face stamps. The tutorial also shows you how you can make the same stamp look different, on different faces.
If you'd like to try free-hand drawing faces, get some guidance from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, the creative power behind a new DVD from Interweave, called All About Faces. Watch this preview of the video to get some face drawing hints:
See faces don't have to be hard. Give it a try!
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