Hand Painted Greetings Cards - Water Colour Paintings - Woodturning -  Woodcraft

Painting Butterflies:

The great thing about drawing and painting a butterfly greetings card is that it's one of the easier subjects to master. And as a bonus, if you get the left side correct, then the right side is exactly the same!

They come in an innumerable array of hues, colours and patterns and unless you're an expert, it doesn't matter at this stage what colour scheme you invent. The only thing to remember is that, usually, each wing is patterned more or less as a mirror image of the other one.

Each wing has a series of veins - much like a leaf - and helps to create a nice pattern along with the colour. However, keep these light or the wings will look cumbersome and heavy - quite the opposite of reality ! The main body is long narrow oval and often a black or dark colour. Try your wet in wet techniques and just let the colours flow together. You'll be surprised at the amazing results you can achieve.

In fact, you can very quickly draw several images of butterflies all over your greetings cards and enjoy copying or creating a whole array of believable colour schemes for them. I hope this encourages you to have a go at painting your own beautiful butterfly greetings cards. As I said at the outset, drawing butterflies is by no means difficult, even for the new starter.  

I hope you enjoy my butterfly greetings cards below and that they may even inspire you to have a go at painting butterflies yourself.

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Free Choice of Lettering on the Front of the Handmade Greetings Cards

1. Happy Birthday 2. Birthday Boy 3. Birthday Girl 4. Many Happy Returns 5. It's Your Birthday 6. Thank You 7. Best Wishes
8. Merry Christmas

You can personalise your handmade greetings cards with your own verse or message printed on the insert page Free of charge. You just select your handmade greetings card or cards and send me your verse/wording including the word OVAL or Square picture and your choice of Gold Lettering for the front of the card by clicking E-Mail.