Fantasticle Mask

I attended another fun filled evening in Frances Fazzio's

Creative Constellate art class.

You can find her on Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/and_shifthappens/#.

We were to create a fantasticle mask!!!

Fantasticle means strange; fanciful; unrealistic.

Well, I'm sure most of you guessed what Lisa was going to make!

A human cat, of course!!!

Frances supplies all sorts of things in her classes.

It's nothing at all like being in your own craft room & 

already knowing everything that you have.

You have dig around in these classes and just find stuff!!

These are some of what she supplies:

Various glues

Scissors; hot glue guns; paint brushes

watercolor & acrylic paints

pretty pipe cleaners

ribbons & yarn

flowers

stickers

stencils

rubber stamps

markers & pastel chalks

flat back jewels

broken jewelry

pages from magazines

found objects

rustics - nails, screws,etc

AND MUCH MORE!

For my mask, I chose to use pipe cleaners for the whiskers;

 stencil mod flowers on the head & outline the lips & eyes with markers;

make a yarn & bead side ponytail;

jewels (from broken costume jewelry) to make eyebrows;

and flat back jewels placed on the whiskers & sides of the eyes;

a large flower & leaf to adorn the head.

It was so much fun!

I just had to share it with you because I finally created something 

at one of her excellent, fun classes that I actually liked!

Thanks for looking!

Have a blessed day,

Lisa >^..^<

Fragile World - Tapanuli Orangutan - Critically Endangered

 Another very sad story for an undeserving animal.

The Tapanuli Orangutan is a new species that was discovered in 2017.

Their numbers are down to less than 800.

They live in North Sumatra (an Indonesian Island)

where human encroachment and deforestation, 

as well as a planned hydroelectric dam, 

are all destroying their only remaining habitat.

Internet photos helped me to know their colors.

The illustrating artist, Kerby Rosanes,

really honed in on their plight

by having this orangutan hold it's forest close. 

Thanks for visiting!

Have a blessed day,

Lisa

Products used:

Fragile World Coloring Book by Kerby Rosanes

Prismacolor Premier 150 Colored Pencils Set - 

(these were used on the Orangutan & the forest it's holding)

Prismacolor Colorless Blending Pencil

Faber-Castell Polychromos 120 Colored Pencils Set - 

(these were used for the background and edges of the page)

Sakura Eraser

Grumbacher Fixative Spray