Finishing Up Our Self Portraits...

After working on our self portraits for several hours and trying to come up with the many words needed to do this, I took the following pictures. All the detail you see in each portrait is made up of words about us, things we like, things we dislike, songs, memories, etc., etc. I think we all really enjoyed this challenge.

If you scroll down, you will see how we started on the project. This part is near completion. Some of us are going to stop here and some of us are going to fine tune their portraits. We would encourage you to try this challenge for yourself.

Self Portrait in Words Challenge...

April challenged us to do a self portrait made of words. This may sound fairly easy, but it wasn't quite as easy as it sounds :>)) Last week, April took a picture(s) of each of us. She had them waiting for us at her house this week, along with paper to trace the outline. We used her east windows to trace around the features of our portraits. The next step was to do a rough copy and start putting words around the features. Most of us used very fine tiny letters to do this.

In the pictures below, I will show part one of what we did and the next set of pictures will show us finishing up for the day. We all used words of our own choosing...some from past, present, and future. Take a close look and see how each of us went about doing our self portraits.

You may notice that we all look MUCH younger, possibly thinner, and just greater than normal. We were doing a little plastic surgery on paper :>))...very fun! We challenge you to try this. It was a fun project.

DAWG Posting Winner!!!

I had to share these with you girls...In the DAWG (Designing Artist Women's Group dawgteam@spruz.com ) group that I belong to online, I was the winner of these three ATCs. Aren't they wonderful? The cat ("Green Sleeper") is by Sue Taylor Perez...the "Cherries" is by Joann Wheeler...and the little fairy is by Gina Sutton. They are all DAWG team members.

Mary's Dawg Trade...

Mary said: I thought I would post this before I mail it. We had a challenge to make a butterfly ATC. Yes...this is stepping out of my comfort zone :>))