Paint Party Friday: Week 22

"If You're Going to Learn to Fly"

9 x 12 watercolor paper

It's PPF: I'm so happy to be back playing with you again!

This one is a labour of love: I spent weeks creating this piece - layer by layer - in order to bring her to life. It's something that I would come to again and again whenever I had a few spare moments to just play this Summer. . . .

The first layer started out with scribbles of ink, a brayer and several colors of acrylic, glitter paints, stamping, finger painting and collaging until I felt satisfied with the background. Once that was done, I used pencil to sketch her face and then a dry brush and various acrylic paints to create and define her features. I wrote the word "love" under her right eye and collaged some text that spoke to me to the surface along with more layers of paint for the wings and page. The last step was to melt hot pink and aqua crayon to the surface, which I then accented with my favorite Stickles glitter.

Wanna see more?

Vintage text on a swirl stamp

Melty crayon and Stickles glitter

The final outcome

There she is: thank you for taking the time to look - I'll see you at the party!

Kristin xo

{P.S. We're heading out of town tomorrow for a little vacation before second grade starts . . . please forgive me if I take longer to respond to any comments I may receive. I look forward to catching up with everyone when I get back.}