Abstract April - people

So this is where it all gets a bit unhinged - abstracts of humans. First up we channelled our anger and worry into this charming portrait. It's giving angst, it's giving nobody-understands-me, it's giving Year 8 self-expression. It has also been giving me the creeps so I ended up turning it to the wall. 

On the other end of the scale is this pretty face. A nice bit of watercolour-technique background and strong black lines. I quite like it, although the 'hibiscus' flower is a bit mutant. 

And a peculiar little family, looming out of the multi-colour mist. This was very interesting to do because the people have no distinguishing characteristics, and they're quite small, so every time you added the slightest line or amount of colour to them it would change the way they related to each other, or to the space. Like, far away, then closer, then not friendly, then related, depending on what splotch you added. Luckily I wasn't trying for any particular look, so definitely succeeded. 

And then the brightly coloured nude lady, who is lolling on some surface somewhere. I re-painted that left shoulder and left forearm about four times and it STILL looks like a giant stuffed sausage sitting on her hip. Why? the right arm has even less definition and it looks like it is plausibly curled about her head. How does the left one turn into a sock puppet? Aaaargh. At least she looks happy.