Cute little bones I - Under glas

I love all the little skeletal pictures of graphics fairy! Maybe because I am a biologist, maybe because I am a little bit weird ^^, but there is a strange but very delicate beauty in a skeletal system. There is even an impression of movement if I look at them!

So I thought about, what I could do with her pictures... Here is my first one. Just takes the time for printing and some glue to dry ^^

I printed this one very small (half an inch maybe?), glued it on a glas nugget (yes, I found some new ones!) and after drying put a layer of white acrylic paint on the back. This is as well for protection as for getting a brigther background.

This glas nugget had a lot of little air bubbles inside. I like imperfections like this, it is the final touch on everything. :)

A little skull picture...

...for my ever-growing picture wall! Just a small one but definitly needed to go to my strange collection of maps, family pictures, coloured frames, tentacles, mirrors and more. Still not "big" enough!

It is like the skull envelope an easy and fast project. I just printed the skull in black and white...

...coloured the surroundings wild with my three shades of brown and a little bit of black artistic water colours...

It is a little bit difficult for me to point out in english which kind of paints I use (or at least it is always soooo long to write it down). In germany you have either "Aquarellmalfarben" (the artistic water colours) or "Wassermalfarben" (the normal school water colours) and both is really specific for their meaning. I am not sure whether it is also clear when I write down artistic water colours? But the difference in the kinds of paint really maters. Because the artistic water colours are highly pigmented with a really good quality (and they last forever and ever... don't mind that they are expensive at first, considering that you can work for years with them they are cheap!). You get all shades of a single colour just by using it with less or more water. The intensity is not matched by normal school water colours... mh... Okay, keep going ^^

...and more layers of colour...! Just play with them!

I glued the paper around this little cardboard. I folded the paper to the back so the sides are really clean and looking good!

And even more layers of water colours...!

You see that I darkened the edges a little bit more and the colours are more intense.

I also painted a little bit over the skull with a dark brown but only as a little touch. Like overlaying all the shades in the skull marked with the printed lines.

And after all I put on a layer of laquer to protect the surface a little bit.

 

You can find the picture at graphics fairy, just click here!

Skull envelope...

A very fast envelope..!

This time a bigger one (Din C5) for more space...! Okay, to be honest: I had  the skull printed and cut out with a paper knife and I had tried to sort a little bit my stuff so per chance this kind of envelope was catching my eye ^^

I cut out some speech bubbles: The upper one for the stamp and the lower one for the adress label. I also added some "thoughts" for the shipping adress.

Then just a little bit of artistic water colour... and everything was outlined with a black pen. Fast, easy and I think it is somewhat cute ;)

You can find the picture at graphics fairy, just click here!

Ocean inspired envelope

I already made this envelope a few days ago but forgot to post about it. Mh... my neurons are not the newest ones ^^

The picture is from graphics fairy, you can find it here. As soon as I saw it I knew this is perfect for an envelope. Normally all you would need is a colour printer.

This is where my problem started. I just can print in old black and white and not even in a good quality... (Yes, a new printer. Would be great... and needs money... :( ).

So I printed a test version. After this one I decided to add more contrast and brightness to it. Just with the grafic modification options word offers, that's enough for projects like this one :)

Now you have a better chance to paint it after printing. Otherwise the colours would be too dull.

I folded and cut the paper for a very simple envelope :)

Here is the finished envelope shape front:

I wanted the black printed lines to come through so I used artistic water colours.

I also used a black fineliner to overpaint the outlines for more contrast. And I added some movement through more "swirling hair lines"...

All the fishes have some silver as last finish and the mermaid has some gold in the green.

A little bit difficult (as always) to catch on a foto but I hope you get the idea.

After all this was done every creature was overlayed with clear embossing powder.

It is also a little bit difficult to see the effect but it is quite nice. ^^ A little bit like water...!

After all I have to say I am even glad I don't have a colour printer. Otherwise I wouldn't have painted it and in the end I like the mermaid in all this green and gold shades more than the original ^^

Inspirations: Structures (Botanical garden Leipzig III)

Yes, it is a flower. ^^

But for me this is especially an inspiration for structures. Just see how the petals are going to the outside, there is something like a nice flow in it!

The next one could be an alien egg, don't you think so?

Also all fotos are made at the 3th of october (outside as well as in the butterfly house).

Inspirations: Flowers (botanical garden Leipzig III)

This is some kind of flower patchwork ^^ Again all the fotos are from the 3th of october.

What I really love with picture combinations like this is that you get also colour combinations which one can use for fabric patchwork or for paintings because the colours go quite well together. Even the more extreme colour combinations are okay and working if they have their resemblance in natural things. Maybe because we are somehow used to it? :)

And all of them together...!