Pisces Fish – Happy Birthday Fran – Love from Anne

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Happy Birthday Fran

???? I’ve decided to go with a Pisces theme in a traditional art style called Madhubani. And I wish my Sister the Happiest of Birthdays and many blessings for the year ahead ??? I have gifted Fran some of this style art in the past and some hangs on my wall here in Nepal ? I’m quite captivated by the primitive style and have experienced creating this style as decorations on the walls in mud huts with local women .

As a Pisces born on on the 23rd Fran’s imagination, intuition and selflessness are amongst her most defining qualities .
I have drawn the Pisces fish in a traditional folk style art known here in Nepal and northern India ….
For those interested here is some information about the art style –
Madhubani, or Mithila is local folk painting This painting is done with a variety of tools, including fingers, twigs, brushes, nib-pens, and matchsticks and using natural dyes and pigments.
It is mostly practiced by women in the villages who have passed this art to their daughters through multiple generations. They paint pictures of nature and mythology to depict different events like birth, marriage, and cycles.
The women painters of Mithila ( present day is Janakpur, Nepal) lived in a closed society. It is believed that the Madhubani painting tradition began when Raja Janak of Nepal commissioned local artists to paint murals in his palace in preparations for the marriage of his daughter Sita to Lord Ram. The paintings were originally done on walls coated with mud and cow dung. The kohbar ghar or the nuptial chamber was the room in which the paintings were traditionally done.
Originally the paintings depicted an assembly of symbolic images of the lotus plant, the bamboo grove, fishes, birds and snakes in union. These images represented fertility and proliferation of life.

Use a black colour pen and outline  the image, Great pens for outlines are Posca 1m, !mr or the 0.7m size in Tooli-Art or Artistro.

And if you want to add a touch of highlight –  pop on a few dots and dashes of white paint .
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Draw the design on your rock.  Click on the image below to learn how to draw on Rocks

 

Colour on your rock – I have just painted a nice even layer. You do not want to paint it to thick. The more layers on the rock the more chance it has of peeling off later as the water in the base evaporates. Click on the image below to find out how best to paint on rocks!

Shading makes all the difference to the end result. Adds depth to the Image.
I use clean water and a size 2 or 4 filbert taklon paintbrush click on the below image to learn the technique – or head to YouTube to watch how I do the shading.

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