I hope you have been following the Blog Hop celebrating my new Stencil set from Artist Cellar!
I’m feeling like a very special girl with my fantastic, arty friends creating such AMAZING artwork.
And all so different! Wow!
Now… I could be super-nice and include a little summary for you, but I want you to treat your eyeballs by going on a little wander and visiting their blogs if you haven’t already. I have the list with links at the bottom of this post.
Now, what I have been creating with my stencils? Well! I’ve been super busy with craft shows and workshops since I got home from my trip to the USA and Mexico. So I have a been bringing forth lovelies aplenty!
In my in-person workshops I have been including lots of lovely collage.
And the collage is popping up in my work – especially in hair… such a wonderful place to add some whimsy…
And these two are from a face drawing demonstration I did in Melbourne.
Using the new Distress Stain colours in their hair – Peacock feathers and Picked Raspberry – yum!
I have a whole hand-made journal featuring the same stencil. And I love all the different faces appearing!
The turned face stencil is a favourite. You would think a stencil would cramp creativity, but they get me thinking out of the box. I can move quicker with ideas. 
The eye set is wonderful ( If I do say so myself, lol!). Here is a work in progress. The closed eye stencil inspired this down turned face… As soon as I finish this blog post, I am going to get straight back to this one!
and here is the profile and one of the eye stencils…
This is a detail from another work in progress.
I sprayed some Dylusions ( the NEW Calypso Teal – heaven!!) on a gesso base.
I love the way it pools and puddles like a watercolour…
and here is some work from my students in all the in-person workshops I have been conducting lately!
The first is from Annie.
And this is from Karen – two very different takes on the same stencil!
And this next one from Natalie Hennekman in Melbourne – cute right?!
And I gave a set to my to my friend Diana when we were in Mexico, and this is her loveliness:
So!
Now how would you like to get your hands on a set?
All you have to do is :
1. Subscribe to my Blog by clicking here:
2. Leave a comment below about why you love ( or would love to!) draw faces.
I’ll get Tinsel to select a winner later this week!
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A BIG HUGE thank you to all of you who joined in the Blog Hop.
And warm cuddles to my Bloggers – what a talented, fabuloso bunch!
You can go and have a marvel at their awesomeness here:
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Just love what I have seen created with your fabulous stencils!!! All so unique – which is amazing considering they have the same starting point! I can’t wait to try them out for myself !!! Congratulations !!
I have always wanted to be able to draw – to tap into that inner artist that I know is inside me but who is unsure of herself and scared of not drawing what her heart wants/needs her to.
I see your stencils as a way to help release the inner artist in me.
Ok, I’ve been subscribed to your blog for ages! Probably under my personal email – this one is for my blog & online world:)
I would love to get the hang of drawing faces because they can be so expressive of emotion – change the slant of an eye or hair and you get a totally different look! I really must spend some time just playing
I hope I’ve commented on all the blogs. I’ve been following you on Facebook and admiring all the posts and all the different ways people use your stencils. I adore them and definitely need the whole pack! Love you Jane!!!!
I love to draw faces because I think it add so much emotion to my journals. I can make the face feel what I feel what I am going through that day. And along with emotions, I can make them WHIMSICAL! I love your classes and I have learned so much!
You are my inspiration and I would love to draw lovely ladies like yours.
You have created magic Jane. Am subscribed to your blog. I have been in love with faces ever since i took your I Heart Drawing last year. I, love to draw faces as mist if my painting s are messages forme so they are great expressions. Its liberating to be able to draw faces and that too now with your stencils they would be a breeze for at journal. I love creating faces and have been avoiding journal and playing with canvas and paper. Now i might hop on to it and party.
Much love and light to all.
I’ve long admired your work and am saving up for a class or two or three. I really enjoy your teaching style and I LOVE these stencils. This is a great way to get a fast face into a journal page or anything else……..and you will learn proportion and placement as you use them……….I love these new stencils.
beautiful work, have really enjoyed visiting blogs i have not visited before and seeing all of the different ways everyone has been using them. would love a chance to play and see what i could come up with.
thanks for the chance.
debi m
Ho Jane!! I want to make fabulous faces like the great artists I have been following on See Jane Hop this week. I’m inspired!!! Thanks.
Hi Jane
Really amazed by your art I have only just discovered you not long ago and really enjoyed the lesson on Life Book 2013 i am just learning
Doing a face seems so scary so the stencils are a great way to learn and have fun without stressing about what it looks like
I’m subscribed and inspired. Stencils would help me be faster at journaling which is taking over my life and encouraging bravery and intuition and promoting happiness. Bliss.
I am having lots of fun learning to draw faces…the stencils look like more hours of fun…your drawings with them are beautiful…love the collaged hair…so inspiring…
To be really honest, I prefer to draw my own faces in my journals as dumb, weird and messy haired looking they are. However, looking at all the artwork in the blog hop I can see how each artist has created something unique of their own with them. Jane is not jumping out of their artwork but you are jumping out of your own art in this blog. You should be very proud of your stencils because you have created a very versatile tool for art journallers and the like. Your stencils will encourage people to add elements to their art they may normally hesitate at. I have no doubt they will be the best selling stencils in the range. Good on you!
I was one of those girls who said I couldn’t draw. Well, you opened my world with Draw Happy! I moved then to Supplies Me and Draw Happy 2 is next!! I can’t stop drawing!! Thank you, Jane!! I love your work!! And you, and Tinsel!! Xo
I just have to have these stencils because I have always wanted to paint great faces. Thank you so much. I really enjoy your blog. Your first class, drawing faces is fantastic.
I love drawing faces because when I do I see my inner feelings reflected even if I wasn’t aware of them at the time.
It’s a great way of taking stock of my inner emotions.
Jane, I just love to draw faces…..your stencils would just be an added bonus and give me a shove when I’m thinking I cannot do it!!!!!!
Faces – what’s not to love about drawing them?? They’re great to just doodle when I wanna draw but don’t know what to draw or why. I fill my journals with them & doodle them in the margins of my school notes. I don’t know why I love to draw them, I just do!
I love what you’ve done with your stencils and I’d like to have a go too!
I love to draw faces, although I am still learning how. I would love to have your stencils to help me learn.
Whilst I enjoy creating my own whimsical characters it would be nice to have a starting point for those days when the creative juices are not flowing as steady as I would like! I enjoyed seeing your work in Melbourne and I just love your pretty ladies. I would love to experiment with the stencils and see if I can make something just as marvelous.
x
Love, love, love your stencils! Want, want, want your stencils!
Oh, Jane…these are all so beautiful! I have really enjoyed the blog hop; & just love how each artist was able to use your stencils, in your style yet, transform them into their own….fun!
I’m not really sure why I love drawing faces….I have since I was a little girl. There is just something so sweet & personal…perhaps, a part of me that comes through from deep w/in….an essence of me blooming forth…stories & fantasies full of possibilities. I see this in so, so many artists & it’s just beautiful.
Thank you for the generous opportunity! ~H♥~
I love to draw faces to have fun and experiment and get better at it. I also want to put a bit of me into my art without the girls looking like me. It just seems like a way to connect with other people and have some fun.
Wow, I realy like what you did with youre own stencils. I’m a little sad because the blog hop is over
I did the blog hop everey day and just loved to see what all teh other tallented girls did with the stencils. I would love to have a set of my own, because I’m in a 100 faces challange ( I’m on face number 65 Ü ) I doe this because I’m addicted to drawing faces. I would be very happy with such a nice Jane Girl Stencil set.
Liefs, Melanie
These are so fun! I would love to win these and use them in my art journals and such. I have ideas already!
I just took a brief class and drew my first few faces…these stencils would be so incredible to have! thanks for the chance to win and be creative- love your work!!
I love the wonderful diversity that I’ve seen on all the blogs. What beautiful work.. I can’t wait to give these stencils a go and see what lovelies emerge!
Good morning, Jane. This has been a wonderful and inspiring blog hop! Sure hope I win, I want to make a book of faces too!
I love drawing faces and that is because of you Jane and your enthusiasm for them, which is so contagious. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and gift.
Oh Jane i have been a fan of your for a long time,,you are a great teacher and these stencils look amazing,,thanks for the opportunity.
Love them, love them, love them, please, please, please pick me. Can’t wait to play with your new stencils!
I would love to win a set of your beautiful stencils. Drawing has never been one of my talents, but I think that using one of your faces stencils would give me a good head start to creating beautiful artwork such as yours. Thanks for the opportunity to win and for all your wonderful inspiration!
It is AMAZING to see all the different ways the artists are using these stencils! The blog hop has been a ton of fun. I think your stencils just may remove the block I have acquired from trying for so long to draw faces and not having much success. I can see so many possibilities with this set. I would love to win them! Thanks for the opportunity!
Although I now have confidence in drawing faces, thank you Jane for your wonderful online workshops, I would love to have these stencils. I can see lots of uses and possibilities — which is why I love stencils so much they are so versatile. Thanks for a chance to win!
I would love to have face stencils. I don’t draw well. I would love to add faces to my art journals. Thanks for the give away.
Already a follower on your blog. Loved all the different creations from the stencils. There would be so much to create with these stencils. There is no end to the imagination of using these on all sorts of material. I would love to win a set, it will help when I am in a rush to get a face in or two instead of sitting here for hours trying to get the right shape. Good luck everyone.
Hi your art work is unique and beautiful. If I win your stencil set it will be an awesome way to to improve my journalling skills. Thank you for sharing!
Oh what gorgeousness! I’m already a follower. I LOVE those stencils as they provide enough of a guideline to help the face-drawing-challenged like me, but are “open” enough to give everyone the possibility to make them totally their own! Awesome!
I have been trying to refine my skills for making faces for awhile now and these stencils inspire me to try some different techniques. They are fabulous and I love seeing how everyone uses them.
Love your New Stencils Jane !
I would love to win a set !
Really Inspiring !
Faces and eyes: so full of potential, emotion, soul, uniqueness, diversity, connection…+++. Playing with your stencils: limitless potential and opportunity! Yea! Thank you!
love, love, love your work. I need help with faces, and these stencils would get me started in the right direction!
Faces “express” us, what’s going on, who we are, who we are becoming…I love the process, the meditation that drawing enables. Draw on!
I love drawing faces because it’s a wonderful thing to practice drawing. Once you have the composition, shadowing, expressions, and coloring down, it’s always helpful in drawing other things too. I just think faces are a great thing to draw and i would love to get better at it. And your stencils will help alot with that!
I used to draw faces years ago in college but felt that they weren’t good enough. Lately I’ve been hungry to draw faces again–I just need a little jump start and I adore your set and what you’ve done with them. I’d use them all the time.
I just recently have started to journal. Our daughter was killed in a car crash and I have been searching for a way to work out dealing with all that this changes in my life. I am NOT artistic and therefore I am intrigued by your inspirations and your stencil. Maybe there is he for me!
I meant HOPE!,. See? What can I say!
I’m really in to faces at the moment! I do a 365days-project this year with Faces as theme. I would love to be able to draw and paint faces well, so i wanted to push myself to practice a lot
I would love to play wth your stencils, they are beautiful!!!
I like drawing faces because everyone’s face is different and they tell us so much about a person and where they’ve been/what they’ve experienced. Every one tells of an amazing miracle, a person’s own story. Thanks so much for the chance to win these beautiful stencils and good luck everyone who enters.
Jane, you are such an inspiration to me! I follow you every day, can’t wait to try your new stencils!
I have really been working on drawing faces for the last 6 months.
Thanks for this chance to win!
Janey
I love to draw eyes, as so much can be expressed.These stencils would give me the courage to use the rest of a face too!
I’m a photographer, but have zero artistic skills and need to start with something. Simple as that! Please choose me!! Thank you!!
I have to say this is one of my favorite blog hops of all times!! I have trouble with faces and wondered why everyone always puts faces on their art journal pages. When I saw these stencils advertised, even though I LOVE your work, I thought they would all end up looking the same. Man was I WRONG! I am amazed and ‘awesomized’ (new word?) at all the different (very different) looks from all the wonderfully talented artists. I can’t wait to get my hands on these stencils and give them a try. Thanks to all of you and especially you, Jane. I hate to see it end.
Jane, what a lovely blog hop. I signed up for your email list. I love the art in this post showing the different “takes” using the same stencil. What fun! Would love to win a set and start playing and experimenting with them. Congrats on their release and this giveaway. Should I be the lucky winner please contact me at bkisrael@gmail.com. Thanks so much!!
I’ve been subscribed to your lovely blog for a while now Jane
Having your stencils would allow me to be more creative and work outside the box so to speak. Perhaps allow me to also concentrate more on backgrounds. Your work is gorgeous, so its not surprising your stencils have worked out so well. Take care xx
Your stencils are gorgeous! I really would love to win them and have a chance to draw “your style of faces” on my own! Your art is incomparable, you are truly gifted and are such an inspiration!
I really want to draw faces and I think this is a great springboard. Love the institute of cute, too.
I am so excited about these stencils and even if I do not win, I will be purchasing them. I have a phobia regarding drawing faces and they will help me to perfect the skill. Jane you have developed a very useful tool.
Hi Jane! I love making faces and have been so excited seeing all the different ways people have been using your stencils! Would love to own a set for sure. Would love to experiment with them myself!
Ooh…loving!!! Can’t wait to doodle and create some girly goodness!!
I have always wanted to learn how to draw faces. I do draw them but they’re not very good. I would love to have some help such as the help these stencils provide. Love your work!
I would love to learn to draw faces because I am new at Art Journaling and I would love to have stencil to help me in my drawing!
Love your style and your classes! I love to draw faces because it’s fun! I have been thinking a face stencil should exist so I would love to get the chance to work with them!
I just found your site through Mindy’s blog and I LOVE your work!!!! and would love the chance to win your stencil
I just stumbled over your blog. I am just now experimenting with art journaling and have seen a few of your pictures on pinterest, but didn’t realize it was you until I discovered this blog today. I am in LOVE with your colorful style and I am drawn to your faces in your journaling. I especially love to draw and create, but faces tend to intimidate me. I think I will be signing up for a workshop soon! I would LOVE to win your stencils! Yes, that would be pretty awesome! Thanks for sharing your talents.
I love drawing faces, it is like bringing someone new to life. I never tire of it because no two ever look the same. Your stencils look fabulous.
Kate
I have admired your art and your beautiful faces for awhile, and would love to take one of your online courses in the future. (I am excited about the one you’re working on with Teesha Moore ) To own your new stencils would be magical, thanks for sharing your beautiful faces with us:)
My 12 year old granddaughter has been tutoring me on learning to draw faces. These stencils are just what I need. Thanks, Maren
I just love watching your videos, Jane, and although drawing people are not my strong point, I can see that using your helpful hints, my faces are beginning to come to life. I would just love to win this fantastic set as I can see so many uses for them in my various craft endeavors. Thank yo so much for the chance to win!
I love your whimsical and very expressive faces and I hope to be able to draw faces as realistically one day. The stencils will be great for getting proportions right and for quick faces in my journal! I just love your videos and helpful hints!Thanks Jane.
Wow what a wonderful way to overcome the fear of faces, and being able to create them, and learning the lines while u do… Can so do with these gifted to be able to create faces
I just love your work
I love to draw faces as there is a challenge in capturing the emotion. Sometimes when I look up from a drawing that I have completed with no true aim in emotion, there is a reflection of my own emotion at that time in the face.
I always tend to start with faces if I don’t know what to draw. For me it’s always a god starting point even if it gets covered up later in the process.
I love these stencils! You’re a genius. Now I just need to get my hands on them! LSS has ordered them. Yay!
What awesome stencils! I have been a bit daunted in the past with drawing or at least starting faces and these would be the greatest way to leap in for me! What a delightful giveaway! Thank you kindly.
I totally fell in love with your work in Lifebook 2013, so of course i want to use your stencils and hope to join one of your courses later
What a fantastic give away! I have been following your blog for some time now a f have found your style of work very inspiring, and with a view to my own development i would love to be picked for this! Xxxxx
Your new stencils look wonderful! How fun they would be to use while doing Life Book!
I love the beautiful faces you make and even though I have taken. Few of your classes, stens would improve my out come, for sure. I would love to make some pretty faces with you help to guide me! Thanks for the hop and a chan e to win these terrific stencils! Jackie
I would love this, I am hopeless in drawing face so this will be a great help. Thank you for hosting the giveaway
Linda
Amazing stencils. I love drawing faces and these stencils create the most beautiful faces.
Very much a subscriber for some time. VERY much a lover of faces. Been fascinated by them since a child. I love drawing/painting/collaging faces. They can express what cannot be expressed in words for me. Even better, each viewer will respond in their own way to what they see.
Jane, I so loved your class in LifeBook last month and you and Tam have so encouraged me to keep on working on faces!! Just in the short time in LifeBook I have seem my art blooming and I find so much joy in creating that I could keep playing day after day— all night long and if it were not for some health issues, I probably would not sleep until I crashed!!
Art truly is my real therapy!!!
I love your classes and I try to follow along drawing faces and practising. But some days I just cant do it. It just doesnt come out of my pencil. So having these stencils will get me past that block I think. Give me the basics to work from as a starting point. Then I can make gorgeous faces too! Yay. Cant wait to get a set. Thank you. (roll on pay day!).
Love your stencils, Jane! Amazing, just like your classes, your art and you! What a great idea for inspire artwork!
Oooo. I was just about to make some stencils and rubber stamps of faces and came across your lovelies. Just beautiful.
These are the most beautiful stencils I have seen and I am jsut teeming with ideas for them. They are hugely versatile, IMO.
I will not be able to match all the wonderful things already said by so many members, but even if I repeat myself, I must highlight the originality and versatility of such stencils. Jane, your paintings having used the stencils are absulotely ‘eye candy’, I love the colors and the flowing energy one can perceive looking at them…
Thanks.
Love and light from London.
Glo.xx
wow jane I absolutely love your work — would love to win the stencils — I am very interested in learning to draw faces — hope I win –
I would love to have a set of these stencils! I am just learning to draw and working on my faces. I think these are amazing and will help everyone get started!
Thank you for sharing the photos and the give away set of stencils. I will be watching my local shop for these if I don’t win!
Your stencils are fabulous!!
Oh my…I’m in love with your stencils! I think I could fill an entire journal playing with them. I’m in Life Book 2013, and not very long ago found you and your delicious art – WOW – is all I can say! We both have a love (addiction!) of art supplies, and I truly love your style! Just subscribed to the newsletter…can’t wait to see more of your lovely art! Hugs!
OMG I just love your stencils. I love drawing faces but struggle BIGTIME. These stencils would be a great basis to work with to help me along the way. I have just started my two teenage daughters on art journaling to help alleviate stress from school and homework and this would be a great start for them as well. Hoping to do some of your classes if I can find some me time. Thanx for all your inspiration!
I feel like I struggle when it comes to faces and would certainly put these lovely” Jane ” faces to very good use. I do so love your art and am very excited to see these new art tools . Fab!
Loooove yer stuff jane.girl!!! You are a breath of fresh air!! Who wouldnt want your gorgeous stencils!! Mwhaaaa!! Xoxo
Well I just started teaching myself to draw faces! It’s going pretty well but this would help the process a bit I think!
Love the whimsy in your art!
I love drawing faces because of the way it makes me feel. I feel free and uplifted by creating out of my imagination, creating a brand new little person who represent some part of me is just the best! I would love a chance to win your awesome brilliant stencils!
I have wanted to get better at drawing faces since I started art journaling 3 years ago. The stencils would definitely speed up the process and enable me to draw and paint proportional faces : )
I love drawing faces, it doesn’t matter if I copy something as it never looks like the original LOL.
These stencils would replace my worn out homemade cardboard ones. Never thought of making an eye stencil one though, I can never get them the same size and they are always too big for the face…. I just tell everyone the faces are meant to be whimsical……
I love drawing faces because each and every one is a small aspect of me. I can see myself in all. Scary thought. I love how they sometimes a face will just appear in my work and it flows together easily and effortlessly. Having a set of your stencils will help the Flow…
Wow, what an awesome blog love those faces, would love to learn to make beautiful faces!
I would love these stencils!! What a great way to take the fear out of drawing faces!
Very cool ….
I love drawing faces as it is a great escape and more fun than tv. I get to be creative and fun or fanciful or dreamy just as I please. It fills me with joy to see them come alive.
Thank you for lovely give way I just love you’re work
Just started drawing faces and I love how I can transform a face with expression and color
I love drawing faces because it can be so fun and therapeutic. With these stencils a lot of the stress of drawing the perfect face would be gone- the possibilities are endless!
Gorgeousness! Would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to win a set of these stencils! I am in love…….
I adore these stencils! I love faces in art, always have, but can admit to just not having the talent to pull it off myself. Would love a chance to get my hands on these beauties!
AMAZING, I love these stencils!!! I have always sucked at faces, I can get the rest down fine, and tend to leave the face to last then ruin it!!! And was coming over here to check out your stencils as well, coincidence
Beautiful stencils!
real life is so hard ………. I long to escape into your world
I adore your style, your stencils look fabulous and everyone has done such a beautiful job with them. I would love a chance to make something beautiful with them. Thanks for the opportunity. Hugs
O Jane, I would just love to have a set of these scrumptious stencils to use in teaching my children (we homeschool) to not be afraid to draw and paint faces!! All of our children are artistically talented and I am thinking this coming year we are going to greatly increase our art schedule!! We have to buy all of our books and supplies and to receive this set of stencils free would be a blessing to our family!!
please o please Tinsel, pick us!!!
I need to draw faces, especially of my 3 daughters. I need a hand though and I came across your page and found your work. I hope that I can receive the stencils that you are offering. I need all the help I can get.
I always feel that I am not good at drawing that I had no artistic capacities until I started scrapbooking and altered art. I was so happy then. Now that i see your stencils I am thrilled to start drawing faces and emotions. The best way to draw emotions and captivate each moment. Thanks to your inspiration.