This week I've been working on a little gift for my mom for Mother's Day. I'm actually giving it to her today so that's why I'm able to blog about it without ruining the surprise. Awhile back I'd seen a picture of an angel on a greeting card on Pinterest and immediately thought of my mom when I saw it, planning to paint it for her at some point. Well, with Mother's Day around the corner, I figured it was a good time to paint it.
I began by painting the backdrop of the canvas. This is probably one of my favorite parts of canvas painting. I absolutely love how the paint colors blend together. I used dark brown, tan, emerald green and turquoise to create the background of the 12x12 canvas.
Once the background paint was dry I started working on the angel. The picture that inspired this had a beautiful pale blue on the dress of the angel but I prefer turquoise (and was also out of pale blue paint) so I started with that and then slowly blended in touches of the emerald green, brown and gold.
Once the angel itself was dry, I painted a clear gloss finish over the whole thing. This is something I just started doing in the past year. It gives the painted canvas a nice, completed feeling and helps the colors stand out better. I'm pleased with how her painting turned out and I'm sure she'll like it!
Then I wrapped it up, adding one of my polymer gift tags to the wrapping. I am NOT a present wrapper and am in fact, Queen of the gift bags but canvases always look nicer when wrapped in brown butcher's paper so when I give paintings (or sell them) I usually wrap them. Under normal circumstances though, if you get a gift from me it will either be in a gift bag or not wrapped at all. I'm incredibly terrible at it, ask anyone in my family.
Anyway, I've also been working in my Etsy shop this week, getting things replenished now that I've gotten a few craft fairs out of the way. I'll be adding a few new paintings this week so if you like my work, feel free to check them out here: www.wishesandwonderment.etsy.com
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