Thursday, July 8, 2010

ECO watercolour fairie quote

I chose to do this quote from Peter Pan by JM Barrie for a baby gift, and being a lover of fairies (who isn't!) I went for a light-hearted colourful look.

After sketching the rough out, I found
in my paper stash a colourful scrapbook paper with a splashy watercolour design to use as a background border.
I chose ECO liquid watercolours
to match it.
The colours for the bouncy "laughed" was dropped in with a brush.
To get the bleed on "and they all went skipping about" I used a pointed nib and with a multitude of brushes handy continuously fed the nib with a different colour, occasionally dabbing a paper towel when the nib got too full.

3 comments:

Gail F said...

Oh, Francie, this is so delightful! One can't help but feel cheerful and light when reading it. Some lucky baby!!

FAB letters said...

Thanks, Gail!

The Joyful Artist said...

Did you hear ?........I am gonna be a Grammy!