JFlah's Blunders

Happy dude, no? Has an evil eyebrow... Last week I noodled around with some polymer clay. My sister gave me a whole lot of it a while back but it's been gathering dust in a closet. In a bag of scraps, I found a head someone had started. The colors were strange - but I could tell that they had put a lot of work into it. There were white eyeballs, brown hair, even ears, but the face and head looked more like a bowling ball than anything else and I just couldn't help myself. I wish I could show a before/after, but here's what I ended up with. Still need to bake it and decide if I'm going to make a body - I have trouble working over an armature, but I think that's what I'd have to do to make this work.

 Found this portrait in one of my impressionist books and loved the mystery and the negative space - wasn't bonkers about the yellow skin I saw in the photo of the painting - the one I found online is probably truer to form - but mine has yellow skin... oh well - it still turned out ok. Berthe Morisot with Fan. Oil on Canvas, Edouard Manet, 1872. My work in progress - oil pastels on watercolor paper - First basic beginning of color after sketch - what is that thing below her foot? Dropped in color mixes - was a challenge to decide what to mix with the black so it wasn't so boring. When I sat back to look at it, I decided I wasn't crazy about how the pigment was laying on the rough paper so... Smoothed the color with a metal palette knife - All that's left is to pull the tape off & add a frame.