Create a Big Beautiful Butterfly for Your Garden Fence With Paint Pens
When trying to think of ways to brighten a dark corner of my back garden, where lack of direct sun sometimes makes it challenging to grow things, I came across online these wood butterfly laser cut pieces . I thought I would experiment with how these would look painted and placed on my plain garden fence to bring colour and summer vibes to a dark corner!
I begin by pencil drawing on the patterns I got an idea from some butterfly images and chose a mix of a few I thought would be simple and striking. I use a dark blue acrylic paint pen to outline and colour the inner shapes.
I continue highlighting and colouring in with yellow, orange and gold paint pens to bring the piece to life.
I like the idea of it having shimmer texture and depth of interest so I begin adding some pale gold.
The piece starts to get personality and I choose the colours as I go and don’t really have set idea just going with instinct.
The last few touches and nearly finished. Dots and outlined in black to make the colours pop!
I also give it a protective cover of weatherproofing mod podge sealant.
I use a simple screw and wire hanging on the back to hang on a nail the fence.
It really does catch your eyes as you see it and I cant wait to do some more in various colours!
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This is sweet!
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Very cute. Definitely eye catching. Colors would probably attract real butterflies.
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