From a photo into a faerie....

Kobain's birthday is coming up very soon.
She will be 8 years old. My mermaid has to wait while I take a photo of her and turn her into a faerie queen.

I am not a painter. I started to paint when I was in my early 20's but when I turned to clay, I never turned back to painting.

And I am into instant gratification....so creating a painting by the use of a photo transfer gives me a sort of hands up, and allows me to have fun and get a great result. I'm going to put a class together on this method because it's so easy to do.
So I'm photographing each step along the way.

Here's the 3x5 photo.
Come back tomorrow to see the finished painting. It's so much fun!!!

creating a wire figure.......

I've been playing with some wire and paper and paverpol......making some hanging dancing figures.
Here are some first steps. Bending the wire, gluing the paper ( pages and pictures for the faces ripped from an old French dictionary and some old sheet music....) and then covering the paper with paverpol.
Tomorrow I will apply a crackle glaze and some paint and see where else this piece leads me.
I love the lightness of these pieces and the way they blow in the wind as if dancing.
I hung them on the morning glory vine to dry.