Revisited: I came back to do the piece with the fairy in the woods. I almost gave up as my color did it seem quite right for nighttime ethereal fairy sleeping and I lost my level three leaves to the painting process … but I was able to redraw the furthest leaves with a green colored pencil and did an extremely dark final background. Some pastel shading finished it off.

 

Original posts:

Working my way through an ambitious negative space project with magnolias and leaves inspired by a tutorial in a book by Sarah Cray, perfect for applying the techniques explained so well in this class… it’s taking a lot longer than I imagined! Also wanting to do the fairy project from this class. Stay tuned! My background wash was a little heavy here and I’m having to redefine the dark areas and adding to the leaves. It’s not a perfect layer by number project … which I think worked well in this class. But I’m enchanted with negative space art lately and love the effect. I will post updates when I complete the projects.  UPDATE: finished the magnolia project. On to the fairy.

 

Second update: thanks to a tip from our Skillshare teacher below - I darkened the background further with Prisma colored pencils in indanthrone blue and metallic gold. Very happy with how that turned out !