Second She Art

I'm back, with a second she art girl which I made earlier this week. At first I didn't like it, I felt I'd made it too grungy and covered up her dress too much, but it's been one of those craft projects that has grown on me and I now like it :)

I decided to use Emilie's colour challenge with this She Art girl, so I used the two shades of blue and the white in the background, then used the white and the brown for the dress. :)

Here are a few close ups

The photos don't really show it well, but this background is sooo textured, I can't help but keep running my hands over it!! I have created the texture by using some daler-rowney texture paste that I've bought from hobbycraft. It was fairly expensive but you don't use much on each canvas so it will stretch far and it was one of the best things I've bought for these so far, it's made so much of a difference to the backgrounds :)

I'm really pleased with her hair, I felt the colour and pen looked awful at first but with the addition of the hairband and flower I like it now.

I decided the other day to sit down and make just a few backgrounds as one of the things I don't like about the background of this girl is that the details have disappeared. At first, like I always do with everything, I tried to use too much on the backgrounds and went over the top, so I decided that doing a few canvas background at the same time would stop me doing this as I'd share the techniques between the two so they don't get overcrowded. I am really pleased I did it like this as I loveeee the two backgrounds I managed to make. Here they are

I shall show you some close ups of these background when I have done girls on them :)

On another note, I decided today, in the nice weather, I'd get mum to take a photo of me to set as my profile picture as the one I have at the minute is a few years old. It needed updating and you can't really get much more up to date than this, here is me, the photo taken this morning, and that is exactly what I look like as I sit and type this to you right now :)

I hope you're enjoying the lovely weather, well I say lovely, but being part of a family that's interested in the environment and my dad is an accountant for farmers, we are wishing for rain so that the crops don't fail!! I'm in my SHORTS today, that really isn't right for April !!!

P.S. for those of you who may have noticed, I've changed my watermark, and yes, it is now a dandelion, I really am obsessed with them, they look so beautiful at the minute, I keep seeing them everywhere at the minute and am resisting the urge to get the camera out. YOU HAVE ENOUGH PHOTOS OF THEM HANNAH!!!!

Anyway, bye for now.