9.75"h x 8"w © 2005
Commissioned by Mandy Nagle
Snohomish, WA
Update 11/19/05: Finished!
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Stage 4: Emma's golden crown and tulips are embroidered. Butterflies watch her sprinkling tulips in her mother's garden.
Stage 4: Appliqued and trapuntoed butterfly.
Stage 3: Emma's cloth tulip dress is sewn and fitted. Her golden hair is embroidered. Her her checks and lips are painted in.
Stage 2: Emma's body has been quilted in trapunto style. Her vivid blues eyes are embroidered. Her appliqued tulle wings have then been shadow quilted to give them additional form.
Stage 1: acrylic on cotton - I painted only the basic shapes, the rest will be done with fabric, embroidery, and quilting
Conceptual drawing. Emma loves the books about
Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker.
Emma on the family's Jay 24 "Gator".
The colors Mandy and Emma selected.
Emma's tulip dress, crown, and scepter might be made
like the original lilies and leaves in
Koi Among Water Lilies
Emma's fairy wings will be tulle.
They will be created similarily to the treatment of
the Koi Among Water Lilies sunset