Postcard time again ... Brazil.... It's time for Carnavale

Yes how quickly the week flew past... I wish full of good stuff but in reality hectic and a little in the way of illness as I've developed an interesting rash over the past 24 hours so my skin feels like its on fire at the moment.

Anyways onto more pleasant stuff... Postcard time again and this time out of Europe we venture to Brazil. I knew fairly quickly I'd be off to Carnavale although at first was going for a collage with feathers etc, but decided against the feathers as couldn't quite get the design right in my sketch... So another painting. This time acrylics and watercolour mixed. More time spent in the library... This time a children's fact book about brazil came to the rescue with some pics of Carnavale to get me inspired.

This time the base card was some paper for acrylics so I could get some acrylics down. Sketched out the samba girl outline and then added the circles for the colour behind and did a layer with the watercolours. Then added some acrylics and gesso to add the texture and enrich the colours a little more. Also added some detail with silver paint and some black pen. Finally added the gems to add the final bits of sparkle.

So here you are... Florence writes to Boston from Brazil... She is still full of questions.

So hope you like it... Looking forward to the visit to brazil as i travel round the blogs... Why don't you join me... here is darcys blog to find all the other participants

In other news I have also started on another she art girl as a present for a friend to give her sister... So once the picture is finished there will be another blog post with that. I am also working on the circle journal for lea... She is currently enjoying blogging so please go and visit her... here

Such fun

See you soon

C x