This week’s fine art treat is brought to you by the Pretty Birds stamp set from Picket Fence! I have a thing for parrots, so even though the stamps are (I think?) cockatoos, I went the parrot direction anyway! I wrote a children’s story that I have yet to illustrate about the rainforest – and a parrot would be one of the characters.
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These aren’t the artist-quality brand of Faber Castell oil pastels – but they’re some of the ones used in the kids Self Portrait Class I launched recently! I figured I’d see what else I could do with them. This set comes with a little do-hickey that creates lines and patterns, but I just used my stylus for this.
Ain’t he a pretty birdie?
I made a card from the stamp set – creating a green background with light highlights created with a colorless blender.
I had seen the awesome parrot also on your Instagram and thought it was stunning to see how you made this, wow!! Is there any medium you can’t work with? Because I don’t believe so.
Your card is also great.
Did you wrote and illustrate the children’s story for publishing or just for fun?
Thank you so much Sandy for showing this awesome art work and have a great weekend.
Where can I look to find the instructions for the pretty birds card?
The detail is amazing! I love it!
you are so so talented Sandy
Absolutely gorgeous Sandy! I have not ever played with pastels, I have some pastel pencils but haven’t used for awhile and never really was happy with what I did. Using the embossing tool to get more detail is awesome, this would probably work with any softer medium such as the crayons or gelatos type mediums. I also loved the background music, put me in the “mood”.
Wow! Not your usual style Sandy but am loving it!!! Also love the card. Beautiful.