One morning I had the urge to paint 2 really tall canvases at once. I put them out to dry and take progress photos. What I didn’t expect was the way my fern shadows danced on the canvases.
One looked like fern shapes and the other looked more like feathers.
 
That is where “Fern”started.
 
I quickly grabbed some oil pastels and traced the shapes.
I brought the canvases back in and worked them some more, layering and layering colours.
I drew “Fern” and outlined her with a black posca pen.
I foraged for some of my own painted paper I use for collage and found a dress, flowers and a bow.
I tore up tiny pieces for berries and glued them all on.
I used poscas and a uniball signo pen to create lots of patterns and marks. Last step was painting the edges and striping them with a navy posca pen.
 
Et voila!
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She is happy in her skin.
She is grateful for everything she has.
She listens to her intuition.
She recharges in nature.
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She can be hung as is or would look great framed too.
She measures 40x80x1.5cm
Swipe to see all the progress shots and how beautiful she looks on the wall.
 
Make sure you check out Blooming Beautiful too (the red version).