This is the second day of the Art Soul Gathering 2023, hosted by Ida Lang. I chose to work on this wonderful butterfly from a tutorial by Tamara Laporte.
My piece was a definite challenge. I decided to use my highly pigmented Jane Davenport watercolors. on Fabriano hot press 140 lb. watercolor paper. As a result the light wash effect was lost and I couldn't find the lines of the veins on the butterfly's wings. So I went with the flow telling myself it's just the ugly stage!
When I started using my white gell pen for the lines on the wings and the white Sharpie marker for the outline the butterfly began to show its beauty. I add more detail with the white gell pen and a black Faber-Castell brush pen.
I couldn't wait to work on this butterfly. I love all of Tamara's tutorials.
Challenges:
https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2023/09/september-2023-purely-anything-goes.html
https://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2023/09/morgans-artworld-challenge-9.html
https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/09/classic-design-challenge-september-9.html
https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2023/09/september-2023-anything-goes-woptional.html
Very impressive your butterfly!!!
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What a spectacular Butterfly Carla!
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It sure turned out to be just stunning! So very pretty! Thank you for sharing with us over at Morgan's ArtWorld. Love to see you join in each month.
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Gorgeous! Thanks so much for sharing at A Place to Start!
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Chana
Fabulous Creation! Thank you for sharing with us over at Morgan's ArtWorld.
ReplyDelete~ Judy CT
Just lovely. So glad you joined us over at Morgan's ArtWorld. We hope to see you again.
ReplyDelete~ Arlene CT