Recently I gave myself a challenge: a personal #cadeautje for a sweet woman who celebrated her anniversary. #Kerst ) Starting point was a purchased #windlicht made of glazed earthenware with both blue and sand color. This fits exactly the windlight glass. This woman is totally crazy about the color #blauw - Yes. So I wanted to do something with that.


She finds #hortensia 's beautiful flowers so I had them lying like a dried specimen. Kind of “out of the box” thinking, this one I wanted to paint.. but how? I just did this with the brush on the flower. Do not too hard with the brush or the flower will break. I chose the color of Creall Pthalo acrylics blue and Creall Silver acrylics. First I used Creall Tint {a concentrated diluted watercolor} With blue tint I made the first start on the flower. So I already got some “body” to the hydrangea flower. After this was dry I started with the paint and a thick brush. Little stamping and mixing on the flour. Just pretend to make an image on a painting... but different..

After painting, I left the flower in a glass to dry for a few days. Meanwhile, I searched the woods for tiny mini pine cones. You know they're there, but you need to find where. Those lying on the ground were not suitable... but there was a dead tree with a lot of these pine cones... a lucky one! I dried this in an oven to get rid of any vermin. Just at a low setting 60 degrees and that for an hour with occasional watching.

I painted the pine cones by tapping the edges with blue and silver paint with a brush. Let them dry equally well. At Action I bought a bottle of decorative sand. This matches exactly with the earthenware of the wind light. I put the sand like a big layer in the windlight glass. My dried hydrangea flower I give a clay mountain foot. Simply air-drying clay form into a mini mountain. That's where you put the flower in. The clay should harden for 24 hours.

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