Tuesday 22 January 2013

Fairy wings for Ellie

I have been working on this, on and off for ages. partly because I wanted to take my time with it and partly because last year I was stopped in my tracks by colds,coughs and chest infections for 11 weeks. But I was finally able to crack on and get it finished for a special young lady.

So first I needed to know what elements this young lady wanted on her picture, and this is the list I received.


girl with blonde curly hair...sparkly eyeshadow....rosebud lips, but not smiling...wings.....dog...stars...purple,pink,aubergine colours...word to hakuna matata

first the sketch on 140lbs water colour paper.


I then started blocking in shapes using neocolors.


and more background shapes..


next adding a bit more colour to add shading..



Then I added some white acrylic paint to knock back the colours..




I then added some script and heart stamping, I also stamped and cut out the bunting. i coloured that with markers and glued it on.


Next is another layer of white acrylic brayed on to knock it all back again.. this unifies all the background.


Now I cut some hearts from book pages, coloured them with markers and glued them on.. I added a little glue around each hearts and carefully added some microbeads.



once the beads were set in place i filled in the hearts with glossy accents..



and now to bring back the colour in the areas that I want to stand out.



and now I switched to coloured pencils to add the details and shading..I also used  a little twinkling h2o's and metallic pencils and dots of stickles on the wings.


Finally I stamped the words,cut them out and glued them on. You can see the shimmery areas when the light catches them..


and then it snowed...so I took the opportunity to grab a photo outside..



I hope you liked seeing this process, it was  a lot of fun to make and is now in its new home.

7 comments:

  1. lovely picture for a lovely girl.

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  2. Very nice and tons of details!!!1 She'll be thrilled♥

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  3. What a fab pic for Ellie. I am sure she will love it!

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  4. Looks even more amazing than last time I saw it...so much lovely layeriness :D XXX

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  5. Wow that's amazing and so many layers!

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  6. This is really lovely, so many interesting things to look at end enjoy.

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  7. she loves it with all of her heart - we cant thank you enough

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