One of my friends is having her second baby girl. This friend is not a traditional baby pink and frills kind of woman. Nor does she concern herself with what others think or say about how a nursery is supposed to look like.
I love that!
She really likes sugar skulls and the traditions and family stuff that go with the Day of the Dead.
I have no knowledge about this stuff at all. I really had no idea as to where to start when I wanted to paint her a gift.
So I took a good look at her bedding, did a little Etsy research and found some ideas and a starting point.
Here is her bedding.
And a couple of baby gifts.
You get the idea.
Vibrant and bold colors.
So I did some searching on the web for a cool skull drawing that would work to paint. Truly, while I hate stealing someone else's artwork to paint, I had NO frame of reference. I'm just thankful that there was something cool for me to copy!
So I took the drawing and drew it onto my canvases.
Then I used sharpies to color in the drawings. I made a truly rookie mistake here. I forgot to put a layer of paint down first! UGH!! I realized what I had done after I had already drawn all of the skulls. I was NOT going to redo this work.
I used 3 black sharpies and rotated them around in order to keep the ink flowing well. Sharpies work really well on canvas for a project like this!
Here are the canvases before paint.
Ad then I started painting. I painted one color at a time for the most part.
After painting the skulls, I went back over the black again to clean up the drawing portions.
And here is what I did with the left over paint.
I love that!
She really likes sugar skulls and the traditions and family stuff that go with the Day of the Dead.
I have no knowledge about this stuff at all. I really had no idea as to where to start when I wanted to paint her a gift.
So I took a good look at her bedding, did a little Etsy research and found some ideas and a starting point.
Here is her bedding.
You get the idea.
Vibrant and bold colors.
So I did some searching on the web for a cool skull drawing that would work to paint. Truly, while I hate stealing someone else's artwork to paint, I had NO frame of reference. I'm just thankful that there was something cool for me to copy!
Then I used sharpies to color in the drawings. I made a truly rookie mistake here. I forgot to put a layer of paint down first! UGH!! I realized what I had done after I had already drawn all of the skulls. I was NOT going to redo this work.
Here are the canvases before paint.
Ad then I started painting. I painted one color at a time for the most part.
After painting the skulls, I went back over the black again to clean up the drawing portions.
And here is the completed set. I really, really enjoyed painting these. I learned a lot about the process and what I would do different should I create something like this again.
And here is what I did with the left over paint.
A little more my "style" huh.
but I have to say, I'm really thinking about painting another set of these skulls! Maybe make my own this time!
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