ArtJournal: How to add a face

Inspiration post at TIMI CraftStamper challenge blog, where the theme is 'Take A Stamp Anything Goes!' and this time I created a new ArtJournal page.
Faces are so popular lately on ArtJournal, so I decided to make a second try at drawing one (after this one). In the meantime I bought the Jane Davenport's book, so this is 'before' the book, I'll show you later what happened after..:-)
Secondo post per TIMI, e per me una nuova pagina dell'Artjournal. Mi sono di nuovo cimentata con un viso, dopo questa pagina ho acquistato il libro della Jane Davenport, e prossimamente vi mostrerò cosa e' cambiato...:-)

I started with a background where I cleaned the stencil 

Ho iniziato con il solito sfondo dove ripulisco gli stencils

I drew a face on copy paper ( you can cut one from a magazine)

Ho disegnato un viso a parte e ritagliato

Cut it out, glued and gessoed

Incollato sulla pagina e gessato

Coloured it with PanPastels

Ri-colorato con i PanPastels

I re-drew the features with a charcoal pencil

Ri-designato le fattezze con della matita a carboncino

I sprayed the fixative for the pastels

Spruzzato con il fissativo (molto importante con i PanPastel)

And addded the details with the Gelatos

Aggiunto altri dettagli con i Gelatos

I added some texture, with crackle' paste through several stencils

Aggiunto della texture con stencils e pasta da embossing

And half covered the face since I didn't like it (it happens)

E coperto il viso perche non mi convinceva

Last touch, I stamped and wrote the quote with archival ink and pens.

Infine un pò di timbri e il titolo

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