So now let’s start planning our third painting! Gather together the sketches you made during or after your walks in the nature. You can also look at some images on the Pinterest board that inspire you and sketch from those, making your own version.
Gather together as much of your favorite characters as you can, or you are free to use mine too, and start trying to imagine what story you would like to portray with them.
Now fairies and mythical creatures are known to love music and festivities. Who doesn’t? I know I do, and so that’s the scene I want to portray.
I also want to add some characters from my favorite childhood story, such as a Satyre or Faun, a Centaur and a stag.
Let’s also add our Dryad, and the Fairy folk ofcourse.
You can also paint a dragon or unicorn (I might add him in as well), or whatever strikes your fancy. This is YOUR painting after-all, make it however you like!
So what are some Fairy festivals? Fairy festivals take place at crossover points in the seasons, or they are determined by the position of the sun, or just basically when the times feels right.
These are just a few of my favorite:
- IMBOLC – (February 2 in the Northern Hemisphere and July 31 in the Southern Hemisphere.) Imbolic signifies “in the belly” because it represents the crossover point of the winter’s depth into the New Year when the forest sparkles and the pale light lingers in the evening, bringing with it the promise of spring.
- AUTUMN EQUINOX – (September 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and March 21 in the Southern Hemisphere) At this time of year, nature is poised between light and dark, and the veil this world and theirs is at it’s thinnest. Mist lingers, wind whistles in the leaves, while the softness of the sun caresses the fields with its golden glow. Blackberries are rampant and a favorite of the fairies.
- BELTANE – (April 30 in the Northern Hemisphere and October 31 in the Southern Hemisphere) Marked as the Celtic beginning of summer, this is one of the most joyfully sensuous festivals where nature bursts forth with its beauty and excitement.
- MIDSUMMER – (June 22 in the Northern Hemisphere and December 22 in the Southern Hemisphere) One of the most magical times of the year. With the sun at its strongest point, the fairies and especially active and even visible, playing pranks, and the young and beautiful stealing away as the day’s merge into one another, the late dusk meeting the early dawn.
So with that thought in mind, let’s start breathing life into our fantasy worlds, and bring a bit of myth and magic into our art!
In this next video I will show you how I like to prepare my watercolor palette by making some color combination experiments while we start putting our story scene together… Fun! 🙂