First Post

First post...
Welcome to Arty Party. Hope we all will have a blast at this party :).

Here is my first post....
My teenage daughter and I did this painting for one of her friends as a parting gift. This is a painting of Tika (type of Indian jewelry) - an ornament worn along the parting of hair in the middle of the head.

First we took an 8*8 canvas and drew the outline of the peacock. This was the simple design; we did not draw the details which were shown in the final painting. Then, we used gold 3D paint to outline this peacock.

                                      

After the paint dried, we painted the wing red. Again, this was 3D paint. Sorry about the shadow in the picture below.

We continued to fill in the colors of the peacock. The tail was green and the neck was red. One the first coat of paint dried, we put a second one on.

After that, we painted the face. We put a jewel on the crown and outlined it with gold. Then, we put in another jewel as eye . We painted the face and the beak. To finish the face, we outlined it with black paint.
We put more jewels as the eyes in the tail and outlined them in more gold paint.

We then carefully put red jewels as beads under the peacock. To do this, we put a small dot of gold paint on the canvas, then we carefully dropped the jewel onto the dot. As the jewel is pressed down, the paint gets pressed, making a circle of gold paint around the jewel.

We did two rows of this, them we painted the extension. The same dot-press method was used to get all four of the jewels down onto the canvas. 

We dot-pressed the jewels with white and pink paint alternatively. Then, all that needed to be done was to dot-press jewels with pink paint. 

All done!