Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your face art.

You know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, Photography, drawings, paintings. There just needs to be a face in your blog post.

 

I hope all of you who celebrate had a fabulous Christmas.  It was very quiet at our place. That's fine with us. 

As I mentioned before I have been deep into art. I really like how this one turned out. Here is the original photo. When I find a photo I like I do turn it to black and white. Helps with shading for graphite.

and here is my interpretation. I'm pretty satisfied with it. I do wish I had used a larger piece of paper.

on the easel   

 

I keep moving the photo of him around as I work. 

 

Yay I did chest hair. 

 Here is the finished piece.

AI art that I created on 

Night Cafe. It's the best site to create with. If you want to join in, it's free, just click on the link. Night Cafe

 

There was a baroque art challenge and I decided to make it more up to date. 

 

It's time to see some featured.

First up is Dixie  I love how delicate this is.

Carol from Artist Reflections has a lovely way of creating.

Leeanna  always has interesting art going on.

 She is a quilter but so much more.

 

FFO Challenge

The new challenge is to create a portrait of anyone you want. It can be your family, friends, actors, faces you find on the internet, or a perfect stranger that will allow you a photo to work from and to show with your portrait. You can work in any medium, except photography and you have until Friday January 30, 2026.  Make it fun and let's see what you come up with. 

Remember this is optional. I still want to see all of your wonderful faces. 

That's it for me. Now its time to show me your face.

Nicole  

 

Sorry No Monster Monday

 Hi Everyone!

I'm finding that less to no screen time and all of your prayers and well wishes, has my eye healing. So, no monsters today. I will see everyone for FFO.

Wishing all of you a very happy Holiday!

Nicole
  

Sunday in the Art Room

 Hi Everyone!

Sorry No Sunday in the Art Room today.

Even though I'm wearing glare free glasses, I'm trying to stay off the PC to help heal my eye.

Here is something i worked on a few weeks ago.

Have a great Sunday.

Nicole
 

Friday Face OFF FFO 12/19/25

 

 Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your face art.

You know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, Photography, drawings, paintings. There just needs to be a face in your blog post.

 

This has been a weird week for me. Good and not so good all rolled up into one. In fact this is a good explanation for my entire year. I'm focusing on the good. :)

Part of that good is all of you and the another part is art. I'm thrilled with what I'm creating and week by week I will show you how it is all coming about.

How has your week been?

For FFO this week I have a colored pencil drawing. I like the sensitivity of this face.

Here is the original. Yes, I know the original is a painting.

For some reason I don't have any progression photos of this.

Only the finished piece. Obviously the painted original is much more vibrant  than the colored pencil but I like the way it turned out. I did make some changes to the eyes and mouth

I have some AI pieces that are in a Quest challenge. The challenge was to use the color yellow in a minimal style. These are mine. You can only have 4 entries.

For the Self Portrait challenge 2 of my lovely artist were left out so here they are now. 
 

 Erika N.

Her SP. I love her interpretation.

 and Mia 

A nice Andy Worhol representation.

It's time to see what some features.

All chosen by the number generator, but I'm making sure everyone gets featured.

 

 First up Kwarkito. Who can go wrong with an image of John Lennon?

Melbourne Street Photography

There is so much movement in this. 

Vivian Voo She joins in from FB so I hope all of you can click onto her. 

Melody Jacobs. Always has interesting posts.

Carola bARTz I love her curls 

Last but certainly  not least

Barb with her lovely doll.

The new challenge is to create a portrait of anyone you want. It can be your family, friends, actors, faces you find on the internet, or a perfect stranger that will allow you a photo to work from and to show with your portrait. You can work in any medium, except photography and you have until Friday January 30, 2026.  Make it fun and let's see what you come up with. 

That's it for me. Now its time to show me your face.

Nicole   

Huge Thanks

 Hi Everyone!

Thank you all so very much for the prayers and good wishes for my eye. I have accepted all the healing. As long as the shrinkage of the vitreous gel stops and there are no tears I am good to go. No more yoga for awhile or anything else that will put pressure on my eyes. 

Again thank you all.

 

Ophthamologist Need prayers

 Hi Everyone!

Well, this just sucks! I'm having symptoms of retina detachment in my left eye. I saw the ophthalmologist  today in Eugene. She, reported that my retina is not detached but that the vitreous gel that is behind the lens of the eye and infront the retina is shrinking. It is a sticky substance and as it shrinks, (due to old age) it pulls on the retina. She says there is nothing to do but wait. I see her again in a month. However, if symptoms change for the worse I am to call her immediately, even if it is on the weekend. 

I'm asking please, whatever your belief system is, to send all the healing energy, spell healing, pray healing, candle healing,  Reiki healing, crystal healing and good thought healing to me. I cannot be down with another surgery.  

I accept all healing words and prayers and ceremonies.

Thank you all very much.

Nicole 

 

Monster Monday

 Hi Everyone!

It's a new week and why not start it off with monsters. hee hee hee

Yes, it is Monster Monday but before I get into it......

All of my AI is made on NightCafe 

Right now if you sign up through the link above you will get 20 free pro creations. That's darn good. NC is free. You get credits everyday and if you join in with challenges, and Heart other artist you get credits and so many other ways. Right now I have 1,300 credits and I create a lot on NC. So if you want to try or if you are all ready using another prpgram come check out NC. 

On with the monsters, get ready.

Now for some fantasy/monsters.

 

Now for some pretties.

 

And the last one. Who doesn't like seeing happy kids in the land of sweets?

Hope you enjoyed the show and have a great Monday.

 Nicole