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Leaves
When wondering how to depict a fairy home, you can find many online examples of forest scenes turned into fairy homes. While the internet is great for exploration, finding your own scene will make yours unlike any others. Take a camera or sketchbook to a wooded area. There you’ll find unique configurations of plants, rocks, and trees that could offer fairies places in which to play, rest, or cultivate. Your imagination will do the rest.
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Is it a Fairy Home?
Have a look at these examples that could easily become fairy homes with the addition of curtains, lanterns, doors, and stepping-stones.
6. Add Contrast and Final Details
Apply a medium-light Payne’s Grey tint to the background with a #5 round, and a #2 round for smaller spaces. Add a darker tint to the lowest areas. Let dry. Paint the balloon flower veins at left with a #00 round. Use a medium Opera tint and a #2 round for the flower cluster at left. Apply a Raw Sienna and Van Dyke Brown mix to the right sides of the house vines and Burnt Sienna to the left sides. Let dry. Apply a Viridian and Indigo mix to foliage behind the flowers at bottom right. Add Permanent Yellow to the flower centers at upper left and Raw Sienna to the edges.
With a medium-dark Viridian and Indigo tint loaded to a #1 round, paint all the remaining leaf contours. Add a mix of Vermillion and Ivory Black to flower centers at bottom right.
Using a #2 round, apply a medium tint of Permanent Rose to the flower contours at bottom left, blending outwards with clear water. When the shine’s gone, add a darker tint of Permanent Rose to their centers. When dry, fill some of the spaces behind the flowers with Violet and others with a mixture of Viridian and Indigo.
Apply a Raw Sienna and Van Dyke Brown mix to the stone bench with a #1 round. When the shine is gone, add shading with a mix of Violet and Van Dyke Brown. Let dry. Use a dark tint of those colors to paint fine lines on the bench. Using a #2 round, apply a medium-dark tint of Red Brown to the tops of the steps. When the shine is gone, apply Indigo to the areas turned from the light.
