craftgrrl | painting the roses red (Reply)

its my best friend's birthday next week, so since she is alice in wonderland mad we are having a mad hatters tea party. we've got all that stuff covered, however we decided it would look awesome if we had a heap of alice inspired paintings around.

so onwards to the paintings!

nay, the birthday girl, starting her portrait of alice.

and this is alice getting a few finishing touches added to her. we were joking that she's on acid.

and i couldn't get the idea of the queen's roses out of my head, i'd been telling everyone i was off to my sister's to paint the roses red. so this is the queens garden.

and i painted the roses red. we were joking that i painted the roses red with blood, since it looks rather sinister. which i wasn't aiming for at all, but i do like it.

my sister is an art student, so she had her's all planned out, unlike nay and myself who kind of just started painting. she did a wash type thing, and she'd already done a rough sketch of alice on paper, and now was pencilling her in on the canvas.

i wasn't allowed to take many photo's of jo's work, she wasn't too happy with how it was turning out. i like it though. its just not finished yet.

so she took a step away from it and started on the cheshire cat. we're putting this one up in a tree.

while she did this, i painted tweedle dee and tweedle dum. i didn't mean to cut out most of their faces, i just didn't really plan the painting and i didn't really have room. i'm glad i didn't have to paint their faces cos i'm pretty sure i would have stuffed it up.

we used all acrylic paints, supplied by my sister the ever so organised art student, and cheapo canvases fromt he junk store since we're all poor. we'll probably paint up a few more before the day. we're all dressing up too so its going to be a heap of fun.