Here is the first try.
( I have already painted it over)

Second face. 
 I like that the mouth extends beyond the face.

I took that second painting and played with it in a "superimpose" app on my iPhone and really liked the look of the stripes behind the face.  
 So I thought I would try to paint that.

Face #3 over striped background.

Face # 4.
Trying to figure out how to "block" the sections of a face together.   Cool unintended effect - looks like two faces...

Faces # 5 & 6.
Had two scraps of canvas and still thinking about those stripes under the faces.

Remember face #2? 
 This is the do-over face#2 and is my face painting #7.
I don't like it at all and will do-it-over again.
This may well be a cursed piece of canvas.   (sometimes that happens..)

Face #8.
I really like this one, but for some odd reason it looks like Jesus - and not just to me - a couple of friends thought the same thing.
Now, if you knew me, you would find that very, (VERY) amusing.


So.  
This was a brief tour of how my process and progress proceeds when I am painting.
:)

Here is my "carton" of art to paint for the machine.

Orange.   
Oh how I love Orange.

I could not leave the backside blank!

And those sides needed stripes!

Had to sign them!

Even though I painted them as a whole, I tried to get each one to have enought visual interest as an individual piece of art.

Painting these was a little challenging - as there are all those sides on each little block, and they are so SO much smaller than my usual work.  


It is fun to see them as individual little pieces of art.

 I would do it again for sure!