Fairy Painting in Frames

I'm glad to finally present my latest bigger project: fairy painting in frames. I had such a fun time with it. :) I made this for a "secret fairy" friend swap and this is the first time I get to tell about it here.

I'd like to take part to following challenges:
Lexi's Creations: "Anything but a card"
Inspire Me Fridays 119: "Anything goes!"
Southern Girls Challenge: "Make Believe"

I wanted to use same theme for the painting and the frames. I decided to go for a "Summer in river bank" -theme based on my fairy sketch.
Last Spring I went to a course of Emmo. There I learned using gesso, stamps and acrylic colours all together. It helped to make the frames since I have never done those before. The gesso was great base for stamping and painting colours. To make the result water resistant I brushed two lyers of decoupage finish.

Materials of the painting:

Watercolour pans & pencils
watercolour paper 200g/m2

Materials for the frames:

Gesso
Dragonfly board stamp
Water resistant green ink pad
Acrylic paints
Decoupage finish

29 Faces #5

This fifth face took me more out of my comfort zone.
When I got off from work today, I decided to grab some coloured papers from book store. One of the papers

As I was reading Ayala's blog I noticed she dared everyone to try at least one new thing. So that's what motivated me this evening to create a colourful portrait to dark blue background with oil pastels.

It's fun to collect ideas for future faces. In my to-do-list there are at least...
- charcoal and red chalk with coloured paper
- oil colours
- acrylic colours
- finger painting
- stamping; art journal-like...

In weekend I might have time to test the more time consuming techniques. :) Yay!

29 Faces #4

Hello again!

The 4th face comes here:

The watercolours seem stuck on my desk, lol!
In this picture I used the pencils very little.
It was fun to do the hair with a thin paintbrush.

Thanks for looking! x

29 Faces #3

Yesterday was quite busy with my dance lesson and all, so this aquarelle is the third face I've made for 29 Faces -challenge.

I used watercolour pencils and watercolour pans (not sure if that's what you call it). Surprisingly hard but it's fun to see how water creates effects. :)

29 Faces #2

:) Great to have new followers for this blog, welcome all!

To catch up with 29 Faces challenge I drew this joyous woman.

I think using pencil is the oldest technique I have been practising. Still it's challenging...

29 Faces: The 1st.

I have been hoping I could get a chance to take part to 29 faces -challenge. Now I noticed the challenge is running in this September, yay! :) Since a little I've enjoyed drawing faces. They are so challenging and yet intriguing. Nowadays I don't draw them as often - but this is a good reason to continue.

To the point! Here's the 1st face of September:

This is actually an ATC card sized picture. I used black ink and watercolour pencils to make it.

A Card from Violet and Black

I was excited to find a new challenge which had colour combination violet/black as the current challenge. Violet and its tones are my favourite colours!

This challenge blog is Paperminutes.

Here's my card - could not resist the Halloween mood when I came up with this happy little Vampiria flying up. :) It's been a while since I  drew a vampire character. My inspiration came from a fantasy book series that I was fond of being nine years old: The Little Vampire.

Details: I painted the patterned background paper with acrylic colour to make the pattern stand out better. The vampire picture I drew with black ink and coloured with violet watercolour.

Glad you came to peek out this card, x