Six weeks later...

 Welp. Life! Amiright? TIME! AMIRIGHT?!?!

Suffice it to say, there were/are personal hurdles (not my story to tell) and physical ones (like breaking an ankle in the heat of the summer) to challenge me. 

The constant at any rate has been my dedication (for the most part) to my year-long "Let's Face It" course. So I'm just gonna post #allthethings 

Let's seeeee...where did we leave off? Ah yes! Weeks 19 and 20 with Sabra.

Week 21 with Misty Segura-Bowers. This might be my favourite one yet. Or at the least the one I'm most proud of. I felt what I'd learned in Sabra's lesson, I was able to immediately put into this one. 

Week 22 was 'back of the head' and more hair. Uhm nope. Maybe someday this will become interesting to me but I'm not there yet. TBF, I did do the sketches in my little sketchbook which maybe someday I'll show. It's become particularly important these past few week whilst I've been laid up with my stupid ankle. 

Week 23 with Mika Denny brought a whole new and intriguing lesson using pan pastels (which I don't have and am not purchasing), tinted pastel paper (which I don't have and am not purchasing) using the tint as the mid-tones. I used some not-really-up-to-the-task paper and my charcoal pencils (white and black). And then we were asked to cut out the shirt bits and use other paper inserted behind. I really REALLY loved the way it turned out.

Week 24 with Melinda Cootsona moving into abstraction of the figure and hooboy HOWDY! did I struggle. I think it was the reference photo but as I may have mentioned before I'm trying to do exactly(ish) as I'm being told. Anyway. I sorta like how it turned out but I will be revisiting this idea when I have time to explore.

Week 25 with Milena Guberinic is really the first lesson I wished I could be there in the flesh. There were so many times whilst watching the videos that I wanted to yell, STOP! What did you just do there?!? The disadvantage of online courses. I didn't feel I grasped any of her watercolour techniques and another I want to go back to as I love her work.

Week 26 (and the halfway point of LFI 2025!) with Laurie Johnson. I started this one during the morning of the day I broke my ankle. And with such promise too! The following day, in extreme pain and discomfort and denial, I attempted to flesh out what I started. BIG mistake. In fact, if there's only ONE takeaway from the course it's that if I'm not feeling it? STAY AWAY FROM THE STUDIO. Or at the least already started (and promising) pieces. Herein is the photo story of this poor work. I'm calling her done. But I do not like it. At all! and maybe at some point will redo the whole lesson.

Week 27 with Shannon Hagen there are sooo many things I want to say about Shannon and her lesson not the least of which is that she lives or travels in a camper van (Hello! kindred spirit). Her approach to art and drawing and the world really spoke to me. I've been working on the drawing in my little sketchbook upstairs, where I spend most of my afternoons Resting, Icing, Compressing, Elevating my stupid ankle. It still isn't done. The book is maybe 5x7". That should tell you something. 

And I'm going to stop there. I have a bunch of other stuff to post and share but for another time. Let's hope the remainder of the summer is easy peasy and drama free!