Harvinaisen Kaunis Elämä: A Kiss - Finnabair Creative Team Art

It was love at first sight, when I saw the new Vintage Portraits mould, and I could clearly vision a garden goddess of some sort, a rose sprite sleeping inside it, so I decided to wake it up with a butterfly kiss.

The canvas is small, only 20 cm x 20 cm. I wanted an uneven surface, so I crumbled tissue paper, attached it with Soft Gloss Gel, and primed it all over with Heavy Gesso.

I arranged my composition using Heavy Body Gel to attach everything, and after it had dried, primed the clay motives with Heavy Gesso.

Then I mixed a rosy paint mix using Impastos Snow White, Dusty Rose, Burlap, and Linen, and for shadowing, I added to the mix some Pitch Black and Dark Chocolate. Then I painted the whole canvas with the pain mix, wiping most off with a baby wipe leaving just a trace of rosy background. For the next layer I mixed a new mix of Liquid Acrylics Avocado Green, Umber, Crimson, Purple, and Metallic paint Plum Preserves for the moulds and for blending them to the canvas, and for shadowing and highlighting, added Ink Black and Burnt Sienna to the paint mix.

As finishing touches, I used wax in different shades, Pearl White, Vintage Silk, Vintage Gold, and White Gold and finally, added a very light wash of Jewel Paste Golden Dust here and there.

And indeed, it looks like the butterfly is waking up a sleeping beauty, a rose sprite, a goddess of flowers. With minus 25 Celsius degrees here in Finland, it seems a faraway dream, but it will come, triumphantly victorious, the spring, bringing butterfly kisses and whispering flowers.

Emilia