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.

Baby Piece, Kersals based initials

Just finished up a piece for a friend's grand-daughter. This little 8x10 is lettered with metallic gel pens; the letter interiors are watercolor pencil. For a little pizazz I added gold thermal embossing powder, so they're raised. It's such fun to go wild with the initals to make them unique.The initials are beased on an alphabet I created called Kersals.

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baby gift for Joshua

A little piece for Joshua...

the client asked for it to look masculine so it will suit the little boy

as he grows.

Alas, we changed the quote partway through the email exchanges,

but when I sat down to create,

my mind blocked that out,

so here is the 1st quote,

all dressed up & no place to go!

Walnut ink, watercolor, souffle gel pen;

Techniquill, Mitchell nib on watercolor paper.

Image fits a 5x7 opening.