***Sketching Pretty Ladies Faces***

Hi Sweet Friends!

Over the weekend I got inspired.

Way, way back, more than 30 years ago when I was

attending my local Community College, I

was a very young 18 year old that did

not really have a *career* in mind.

I had always loved fashion and had dabbled in drawing

ever since I was a kid...but with no

formal training during my schooling years.

It IS definitely something I look back on now with regret.
Why didn't I see the potential I may have possessed?

I know, my momma saw it and like most

teenage kids, I turned a deaf ear.  It wasn't
till I was in my late 30's that I opened myself
up  and allowed my creative side to flurish.

Okay getting back to my story...
I did take a class that year call

Fashion Illustration.  I LOVED that class

and excelled or got an A.  We were taught basics of
shadowing and drawing.  My favorite was drawing

portraits...using a magazine ad picture as my guide.

Well...that leads me to this weekend.

I found an amazing artist, Sue Halstenberg...

 She has done a BEEEAUTIFUL series of Victorian Ladies.

( You can Do a google search or check her etsy shop for

these amazing images.)

  Needless to say these beautiful

images got my juices going.

So I pulled out my colored pencils and began

renewed my rusty sketching abilities. 

In between all of this,
 I also came upon a Facebook friend who was

 sharing some drop-dead-gorgeous

pictures of Victorian Lady Embellished Pictures she

has, with pretty faces and so darling all dolled up!

Very inspired now.

Do ya see where I am going?

NOW, I only drew the just the facial features.

I have some plans swimming in my brain of

how I want to finish these off...but

that may take me a while...
maybe a later post.
But here are the 3 better sketches I am
willing to share with ya'll.

I am not saying these are great. 

But I was so thrilled that I could even do this again.

 I will keep working on them and like in all

of creating, the MORE you practice,

the better you become..or at least I hope so.

Be INSPIRED!!!

Lorena