Stage Lips

Stage Lips

The lollipop lips on a stick from the earlier "Pops" (Surreal Lips, Feb 08) made me try the stage idea again. This one is low key (darker values) and very layered. At first the stage was more realistic. It needed roughing up.

Double Profile

Double


Three

I was just playing with a new abstraction and decided to add my old profile (Two New Lower Profiles, Jan 08) and forward portrait (Forward, Jan 08) from my earlier ArtRages. I like the effect of the background face showing through in "Three." I added some of the golden color from the profiles as a layer in the forward face by using the eye-dropper feature.

Surreal Lips

Pops


Pale


Tissue Box Floral

Here is a series of three, high-key lip ArtRages that I did this evening. My favorite is "Pops." It looks a bit like lollipops on a stage, while the red candy invokes the visual cliche' of rosy cheeks on a face. There is a strange French mine thing going on that I like. The sticks are just lines of the paint tube feature going behind the lips.

"Tissure Box Floral" is my answer to all of the Kleenix tissues that we have been going through this cold season.

Caged - Using Tube of Paint

Caged

"Caged" uses the same half-portrait that two of my earlier ones did (Still On Forward Faces, Feb 08). This one has texture from the tube-of-paint feature (reminds me of a basket). The bluish-green comes from the air gun feature in ArtRage on another layer. I like the textures showing through on the bridge of the nose.

Silly Lips

Dressing Gown

"Dressing Gown" is an ArtRage that I did a while back for fun; however, tonight, I decided to add some lips to it. The effect is comic with a twist. At first, I tried positioning the lips all over the place with differing sizes. It didn't work until I went for "literal" lips. The misplacement in terms of anatomy is strange because the "face" seems so serious even if the lips are out of place.

My love of the show Project Runnway must be coming out.

Lips

Grass Lips


Flounce Lips

Here are a couple of abstracts with black and white lips done with ArtRage. The lips are for a Flash animation that I have been working on for a Media Production class. I used a photo of lips as a 50% transparency with black and white lip shapes underneath. The black upper lip and the whtie lower lip correspond with my earlier portraits.

More Forwards

Neck


Disappear

Here a two ArtRage artworks using the face from "Forward" (Forward, Jan 08). This time I cropped them at the nose. "Neck" is a straight import with only one layer besides the abstract underneath. "Disappear," which I called "Inferno" when I made it tonight, uses the double face technique described in tonight's earlier post. "Neck" feels a little military to me, perhaps because of the darker blue-greens.

Still On Forward Faces

Horizon


Blue Circle

Here are a couple of cropped forward faces using the face of an earlier work (Forward, Jan 08). I get the semi-transparent look by importing the face and making a duplicate. I make the first face semi-transparent so the abstract underlayer shows through, while keeping the duplicate face at 100%. I erase areas of the duplicate so the semi-transparent layer below shows through. I leave the brow and lips alone so they stay black and white. The faces are different colors because of the layer below.