Well, here they are. My next project. They are 3 angels I rescued from a Dollar Tree store. As you can tell, they are whitish and brownish and altogether boringish. So let's get to work.
First order of business is to select colors. I decide to be quite vibrant. They will not be a uniform color but all different. Orange. Purple. Green.
They all got the base white paint cover, then I painted the wings a metallic white with a little blue in it. The dresses are painted of pearlized acrylic craft paint. I learned a very valuable lesson here. Pearlized paint needs a base undercoat of the color you want, otherwise you are painting layer after layer after layer of pearl to get the color solid. Once this was done, I was ready for the details.
Little Miss Orange Angel got dots on her wings, dots on her sleeves, dots on her little dove, who also got a gold beak and brown eyes. The original face had these slanted impressions for eyes. I filled them up and added dot eyes and a mouth. I hard a hard time with making uniform eyebrows, so I made them out of dots. It works. Gloss black paint for her hair and a nice red mouth.
For the bottom of her dress, I did more and more dots, some strait and some in a zig-zag. You may also see some little rhinestones I added for sparkle. And here she is all finished.
Little Miss Green Angel got dashes on her wings and more dots on her sleeves and collar. The star was painted with metallic gold.
Her dress got a star pattern, big and small, with rhinestones added for sparkle.
On the bottom I did a three color "flame." Not sure it worked, but there it is. And here is Little Miss Green Angel all finished.
I really went bonkers with the dots on Little Miss Purple Angel.
The book now has a brown cover, gold edging on the leaves, and on the page I added some gold notes to the white enamel. When I first started this swirl, I wasn't sure it was going to look ok, but I just kept adding more and more color, green stippling, yellow dots and pink dots. I like it.
On the other side of the swirl, I painted dot flowers and put rhinestones in the middle of them.
And here is Little Miss Purple angel all finished.
I found some small jewelry clamps that I thought might look like feathers. I folded them over and glued them on to look like feathers in their hair.
All finished, before and after. I think it's an improvement.
Easter is coming. Those two other bunnies from last year are calling my name.
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