Don't feel, create!

     I haven't quite felt myself lately, nothing really feels right to me anymore. Just some winter..uh fall..blues, maybe? I've had a gut wrenching feeling in my stomach for a couple days now, and my anxiety has been pretty bad. I just feel nervous, I don't really know. It'll pass I'm sure, it's just going to be rough to ride this one out. Once again, I've been painting my face this week. I'm also working on a new painting on canvas. There's one thing I've still got under control, my creativity. That never fails to aid me through some hard times.

Grotesque 

To do this, I paled out my face with white cream makeup, and a sponge. Then I created fine lines, wrinkles, and crevices around my eyes, cheeks, eyebrows, and nose.  I went back in with a brush to blend it out, and make shadows. I also made dark circles around my eyes using a black eye shadow. For the mouth I used cream makeup to draw my mouth extending towards my cheek and filled it in black. Afterwards, I used a brush and gel blood. I applied it all over the black areas and layered it, blending it with the black towards the corner, then taking the blood out further away from the mouth.

 Eddie

This one really is hard to explain. I used regular old face paint, and a fine brush, and really just went at it. Blending, blending, and more blending on this one! I'm noticing I have a thing for only painting half my face..not so much 'cause it looks cool...more 'cause I'm lazy. Ha!

After I finished up the second look, I kinda felt like I looked like this guy! Eddie, from Iron Maiden.