On My Drawing Table

Last year I did a tiny little watercolor and ink on a small square of wood.

I loved how this came out.

I started a larger one last week and there needs to be a series of these little butterflies.

The first layer of watercolor and white ink.

 

 

I then framed it in vintage dictionary pages.

 

 

All gets covered with a layer of beeswax and a gentle sprinkling of mica flakes.The pictures really aren't capturing the lovely sheen that the beeswax adds to it.

This one is currently listed in my Etsy Shop.

 

On My Drawing Table

butterfly-art

There is quite a bit of leftover wood from other projects around my studio and I have been wanting to try watercolors on them. This one is a piece of oak plywood that has a lot of tiny grains.

The brown pen that I used was not waterproof so it ran when I started painting, I like that it did.

Black pen was used to define the areas better and enhanced with colored inks and a tiny brush.

It got framed with vintage paper and covered in beeswax with a bit of mica flakes added.

It has such a delicate soft butterfly, dreamy look that I was hoping for.

This little one is listed in my Etsy Shop:

butterfly-art-watercolor-ink-mixed-media

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