We have added these cute little snow fairies to our collection this year.  There are two boy fairies, one standing and one sitting.  There are two girl fairies, also one standing and one sitting.  

They are a cute addition to anyone's shelf.

The technique:
Snow fairy boy standing

light blue       Mayco 331                           med. brown  Duncan 472 
white   Duncan 431                                    flesh  Duncan 441
med. blue  Duncan 459                            black Duncan 476
pink  Duncan 446                                      sliver Duncan 956
dark red  Duncan 480                               green metallic Duncan 959
small Christmas tree lights(blue)            glitter
Optional- crystal in the hand.

When I am painting pieces that have solid colors like this fairy I start with the largest area and work to the smallest area.

1. Paint the shirt, hat, and shoes with light blue.   You may need two coats depending if there are brush strokes.  If the first coat is uneven place a second coat of light blue.
2. Paint the trim of the shirt, the gloves, and the leggings with the med. blue.  Again you may need two coats.
3.Paint the gift behind his legs with a dark red.  Again you may need two coats.
4. Paint the wings, trim and ball of hat, cuffs of sleeves and shoes with white.
5. Paint the face with flesh and hair with med. brown
6. Paint the eyes next.  Base coat the eyes with white, and then place a small black dot, making sure to touch the top of the eye with the black, in the eye.  Then place a white dot in the left corner of the black circle of the eye.  
7.  Now take the black with a small thin brush outline the eyes with black and place eyebrows just above the eye.  See picture below for example.

8. Take a bit of the pink paint and place it on your brush and then rub most of the color out of your brush onto  towel.  (This technique is drybrushing).  Then dab just a bit of color on his cheeks just as you see in the picture above.
9. Now you need to seal your fairy with a spray.  It could be any ceramic spray or sealer spray. The most important thing to remember is it needs to be matte NOT SHINNY.
10. Spraying your piece you need to paint a metallic green on the bow of the package, and place little green dots on the package.

11. Take the silver with the fine brush and out line the wings just as you saw in the picture above.
12. Lastly you will need the white acrylic and glitter.  Brush a thin coat of white over the trim of hat, gloves, and shoes.  Before the white dries shake a bit of the glitter of the top of the fairy.  I recommend you work in small areas and with a piece of paper under your piece to catch the extra glitter that will fall off your piece.
13.  Now that you are done with all the painting of your piece you can take the small blue Christmas tree lights and break of the backs.  You will be gluing them onto the wings.  See the pictures above for guidance of where to place the lights.  
14.  The last option is to purchase a small crystal to place in his hand.  If you don't want to have that kind of expense you can take Elmer's glue and then place a small pile of glitter in his hands instead.
15. DONE!!

And remember this is only our ideas.  Take our ideas and run with your own.  You can use any colors and color combinations.  We would love to see your ideas of how you would do these darling fairies.  

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Enjoy!  If you want the technique and colors for the other three fairies please email us at jansceramic@msn.com.

You can create your own little pumpkin patch with these pumpkin noggins from Dona mold company.  There are 8 unique personalities to brighten your day.  You can place them on your desk at work, in the window of your kitchen, or brighten someone else's day with a pumpkin friend.

The project sheet:
Supplies:
      Bisque pumpkin kit      Black pipe cleaners
      Orange                           Antiquing
       Black                              Duncan Spray Porclien
       Green                             Pink Chalk
       White

For all pumpkins-
 
Step one- paint all of the pumpkin skin with Orange

Step two- paint the top piece with Green and paint tongue Red

Step three- spray all the pumpkins with a sealer (Duncan porclien)

Step four- antique the pumpkins with an oil based brown (Doc Holiday 

Step five- The eyes- base coat all eyes first with White, then place a large circle of color, Green, in the center of the eye.  Make sure to touch the top of the eye. Then put a Black circle in the center of the color.  Last outline the eyes with black and placing lashes on the edges if desired.

Step six-  Outline mouths and fill in open mouths with Black

Step seven- Last you need to blush the cheeks with pink chalk.

Step eight- shoes- base coat shoes and hands white.  Then paint bottoms of shoes and cuff of hands with Black.  Lastly outline the shoes with Black.

Step nine- your pumpkins, shoes, and hands need a final spray 

Step ten- putting the pumpkin together- take the small pieces of black pipe cleaners. (4 pieces about 2 inches long) and glue them into the hands and shoes.  Once dry then glue the hands and shoes into the pumpkin.  Make sure to check for a right and a left!


If you are interested in the Pumpkin kits you can check them out in our shop or even closer on our website.