She Wore Butterflies In Her Hair And Carried Magic Secrets In Her Eyes

Hello everyone, today I am sharing this page that was inspired by a couple of challenges this month – see the end of the post for details.  I had an idea to draw this fairy-looking girl for the focal point of the page, and then I used watercolour pencils and water to colour her, starting with her skin.

As I was thinking “fairy” I thought she might be a forest fairy and so I wanted her to be very green, so she would be well camouflaged in the forest.

Probably not the best idea to be wearing shiny gold jewellery but I’m sure she will be OK and be able to keep out of sight.

So what is she looking up at?  Well maybe all these butterflies that I cut out of some gel printed leftovers using a small Sizzix butterfly die.

I added more depth to them with some Pitt pens and then glued them on to the page so they would be flying around her head.

I added some gold splatters and then painted the remaining gold ink around the outside of the page, which is where I wrote my repeating quote.
The quote is from The God of Small Things by Arundhati Joy and reads She wore butterflies in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes.  If you haven’t read this book, I can recommend it , it also won the Booker Prize back in 1997. I also included this book as Day 36 of the 100 Day Project, tiny book covers, but with a different quote.

And that’s the finished page.  I was thinking about hands and butterflies when I started it and managed to include both so quite happy about that. This paper is 12 x 12 inches hot pressed watercolour paper and so I save all these pages to be bound together in a different way to how I make my usual journals.  A few more pages and I might have enough to start thinking about binding them together.

Let me know what you think in the comments.  As always, thanks for reading!

Ingredients

Hahnemuhle watercolour paper, Faber Castell polychromos, Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils, Pitt Artist Pensl Liquitex gold acrylic ink, Sizzix butterfly die, gel printed offcuts, black pen, white gel pen, gold gel pen, glue,

Challenges

Art Journal Journey – Butterflies – June Challenge

Try it on Tuesday – Butterflies – challenge starting 25th May for two weeks
Rain’s Thursday Art Date – Hands – June 3rd
Paint Party Friday – Week 12 Year 11 

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