Nature Boy

I titled this one 'Nature Boy' as the face was more male and the eyes comprise mainly images of birds and bees and other creatures. The strip below shows a progression from the drawing through to the finished work and the slideshow gives a closer view of each image, although the quality of the progress shots aren't the best unfortunately, due to my rubbish camera phone!

Scroll down to see the completed work or click here to bypass the slideshow and go straight to it.

This work began life as a continuous line drawing of my own face and went onto to develop into a full blown mixed media work comprising collage and paint.

I made it in much the same way as 'Chameleon', using some cut snippets of glossy magazines but also coloured tissue paper, to build the colours in thin semi-transparent layers.

I had no real plan other than to keep pushing on until I was satisfied or until I had overworked and ruined it!  Thankfully, a face I liked emerged from the chaos and so I decided to bring it to a finish.