Tree Nymph Butterflies watercolour

Description

Tree Nymph Butterflies watercolour

I love playing with watercolours, they are so versatile, so vibrant and when you play with them anything can happen.
In this painting I threw watercolours over heavy duty watercolor paper and let them merge with a little bit of control but not to much.  Before the paint dried I added salt here and there and I used a straw to blow the paint about.  Once dried I worked on the Tree Nymph Butterflies ‘which are white in real life’ but painting isn’t real life, Its whatever I want it to be and wanted Blue.  After the butterflies had dried I went about adorning the butterflies with iridescent inks and sparkle. Finally I adorned the background with flower shaped gems and confetti and mounting the work into a heavy carved black frame with gold touches on the high areas.
The end result is what you see today.

The original  Watercolour,  mounted in white, set in a black/gold carved frame,  total size W82cm x H100cm x D4.cm

For other butterfly paintings please visit my Wildlife Gallery.  Should you like to commission your own butterfly painting (click here).

There will not be any prints of this work in it entirety. I may however take elements and make prints available at at later date.

Caring for your original watercolour:- To keeps colours bright and protect your painting from fading, always hang out of direct sunlight and mount under glass.

Deckle edges are rough edges and I choose this finish because I like the look of deckle edges when free floating a print under glass.

Free floating is adhering the print to a piece of mount-board larger that the print so that the rough or deckle edges can be seen when framed. This is an effective way of displaying your prints and the one I often choose at home.