Some Of My Favorite Fairy Artists Plus Some Fairy Freebies!

There are a lot of fairy artists whose work I admire, and I thought it would be nice to share a couple of my favorites with you so you could also see their beautiful fantasy artwork.



First off, I want to share the art of my friend Connie Persampieri (Faye) with you.



From faeries, elves and dragons to vampires, zombies and gothic angels, Connie's art inspires and intrigues. Her faeries are delicate and strong, while her vampires are beautiful and fierce. You can find her artwork on her Facebook page and also in her DeviantArt gallery.









I've known Connie for many years, and I have never tired of viewing each new painting that she completes. Her artwork is available for purchase on a number of gift items and can be found in her Etsy store too.





Next, I want to share with you the art of Selena Fenech. She shares some of her art and her artistic methods on her Facebook page, but I first met Selena on DeviantArt.



Her faeries and sprites, mermaids and other fantasy figures have always enchanted and inspired me. You can see more of her artwork on her website and you can buy her art on prints, jewelery, keychains, mugs, bookmarks and lots more in her store.







One of the really great things about her website and store is that she has a page that shares some freebies with you. There is a game you can download, coloring pages you can print for your children, desktop backgrounds you can use, free decorative alphabet letters with a matching poem and free avatars for you to use non-commercially.







So what about you? Who are some of your favorite fairy and fantasy artists?

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Moonlight Fairy Art - How You Can Make A Silhouette Fairy

I have been inspired by some beautiful silhouette fairy art that I have seen lately. My husband Robert created some silhouette fairy art a year ago or so, and I've recently seen other artists' versions of silhouette fairy art. I am not very good at drawing, but I wanted to create some fairy art of my own.

So here is what I did, I took a photo of a beautful girl who one of my teenage daughters is friends with in which Robert had already cropped the girl out of the photo and added fairy wings to her when he created this image:



He had saved a lot of the different elements as one piece, so I had a lot of work to do to bring it back to just the girl and the wings. Then I used the "fill" tool in Corel PhotoPaint to turn her into a silhouette.

Of course, then I still needed a background. That's when I realized I had a moon and stars in the night sky graphic that I had created many years ago. It was perfect as the backdrop for my silhouette fairy!

And the resulting silhouette fairy art (which I will be adding to my shop right away) is this:



If you have a photo editing program and know how to crop something out of a photo, then you can do this too. You just need a pretty background. Maybe a sunset or something full of light and color would work. And then you need a photo of a girl; you will have to crop her out of the photo. Next, if you, like me, are not very skilled at drawing butterfly wings, find a photo of a butterfly and crop it's wings out. Paste the wings onto the fairy at a realistic angle. Then use the "fill" tool in your photo editing program, using the color black, to turn them into a silhouette. Then paste both onto the background photo and you're done!

Fairies, Fairies, Everywhere!

I haven't posted in here in quite a while, but I've been looking for Christmas presents for my little girls recently and the amount of fairy gifts that come up in searches when I'm loooing for gifts for girls is icredible! And some of the art for the fairy gifts is stunning! I wish I could draw and paint beautiful artisitic fairies like that, but I can't.

I do, however, have shops that affiliate other people's art (meaning I make a small commission off of sales I make for them). In this way, I get to rpetend that the beautiful fairy art is "my own."

One of those shops is at Moonduster's. If you click on the Fairy Magic link, you'll see all of the beautoiful fairy designs. I am frequently updating it as I come across more and more beautiful fairy designs.

The other shop is for all things girl-related. It's called Princess Parade. It has links for mermaids, pixies, fairies, and flower babies among other things.

The difference between the two stores is that the Princess Parade one has designed pulled in from the search terms and I do not have control over which designs are shown, but the Moonduster's one has only designs that I have personally chosen.

I hope that you are able to find some beatiful fairy merchandise at one of these two places, but if not, don't worry. I will post about other fairy gift places I find as I find them.