"Fairy of the Crescent Moon"

We've had blue skies here all weekend, here in Brisbane, Australia. We've said goodbye to Winter and Summer is well on it's way with really warm weather today. We went to the farmer's markets this morning to grab some fruit and vegies, and Miss 5 picked up some water bombs, so we spent a few hours today running around the backyard throwing these at eachother! The kids think it's hilarious!!

God I love weekends.

Friday night I also listed a new 8x8" painting I've been working on. It started out like this:

As I worked more on the facial details I felt I wanted to make the background darker and layered over it in a darker teal wash. Her wings also transformed from "butterfly" to more of a "bat" style. 

I then decided I wanted to make the background even darker and she started leaning towards having a more gothic feel. 

I swear these girls have a mind of their own. A lot of the time I have a pre-conceived idea on what I want the painting to be and almost 100% of the time it doesn't work out the way I imagined. They seem to morph along with the creative process in to whatever 'they' want to be.

So she ended up as this:

"Fairy of the Crescent Moon"

I've popped the original up for auction here on eBay starting at $1.

 Quite a few original paintings have sold this week, however I've still got beautiful paper prints of them all up in my shop. The original paintings that have sold this week are:

"Taurus" (Fairy)

"Little Tree Nymph" (Fairy)

"A Splash of Colour" (Mermaid)

and

"Turtle Cove" (Mermaid)

My Halloween Sale has been popular also! It continues this week with 5 of my art prints at only $10 (A4 size) or $19 (A3 size) (with free Worldwide shipping!).

Tonight I'll be getting ready for the week ahead, and hopefully getting some more work done on some commissioned pieces and maybe even this mermaid painting I've started sketching out:

 

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I hope you had a beautiful weekend! 

"Turtle Cove"

I've finished the turtle mermaid painting I was working on!

Work-in-progress

I added in lots of sea turtles, some close by, some in the distance, and a coral reef floor. I also put in some details like shells in her hair, and little anenomes floating around.

"Turtle Cove"

I LOVE sea creatures, and I find turtles so fascinating! They're just so chilled out and relaxed. No wonder they live so long! So $30 from the sale of this original painting will go to the Sea Turtle Foundation to pay for the DNA identification of 5 sea turtles in their program.

"Turtle Cove" Original Painting - side view.

The kids and I are having a lazy Saturday morning here, while Hubby is out filming a wedding! (You can check out his genius work at Wade Higgins Video). We are currently covered in vegemite, and listening to Miss 5 singing every song from the "Frozen" soundtrack. So please excuse me now while I go to put on some laundry and make a chocolate milkshake that she's been asking for while I wrote this blog post. 

Have a great weekend! :)