"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Started with a pencil sketch on a piece of 6" x 18" balsa wood that had been primed with clear gesso and sanded smooth.
Love using Adirondack paint (I rarely use the dabbers on top - just paint right from the jar) because of the great matte finish it leaves.
Started the hair with India Ink blown all over the place with a straw.
Added a background of flowers and vines to finish her up and then attached the balsa wood to a 10" x 30" canvas. This is one long, skinny piece!
The graphic effect of adding solid stripes of paint at the bottom helps to ground the girl and looks modern and clean to me -
Linking to Sunday Sketches and
22 comments:
This is a stunning piece. Blessings!
Very Impressive Artwork.
I'm really amazed with this kinda work.
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Happy Sunday Sketches !!
Love the step by step. She is gorgeous and you are right about the strips. love her :)
this is stunning. I love how you did the hair by blowing indian ink - that's really quite ingenious! The final effect of the wood on the canvas with the bold colour stripes is stunning and you're right it totally brings it together.
Love this wooden canvas!!! what a wonderful piece....
this is so beautiful!! yes, the solid stripes at the bottom are a perfect touch.
Love her! And my visits here - your blog is totally inspiring to me... xo Silke
Gorgeous, bold and beautiful! Love it!
I love this one! She might be my favorite so far. The ink hair is fantastic!!
beautifully painted on wood!
her hair gives an Alice down the rabbit hole effect I think. ;-)
Lovely.
She is beautiful. I loved reading about each step. Thank you.
She is so pretty.
Liefs, Melanie
wonderful to watch this come to life, it turned out stunning.
She is really great and fab idea working on wood.
Very cool... Better & better... I love the hair- great tip... Going to try!
Oh my goodness golly gee - do you have any idea how good you are. She is beautiful and you are super talented. Do you think I love what you do!!!!!
Sandy
Beautiful! And love the idea of the balsa wood on canvas :-)
Michelle,
I'm not sure what balsa wood is but this is an amazing painting! Well done. LOVE her hair. :)
Wonderful piece
I love the way u did her hair! Great texture!
i am who i am today because i ate a lot of cake - me
This is amazing. I love how you put it on canvas and added those stripes.
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