I didn't have much time for elaborate art work last week but I did manage to create a unicorn for each day even if it was just a small doodle (aka childish line drawing) like this one I made for the 12th.
This one I made for my grandma who passed away quite unexpectedly on the 13th.
(Please don't shower me with condolences in the comments/on facebook - I'm not posting this with the intention to fish for sympathy.)
I tested this fairy stamp (by Lavinia Stamps) on a scrap piece of paper and then gave the fairy a unicorn horn to stand on. She's lighting the unicorn's way to fairy secrets...
This is a little scrap of sheet music - it's only about 3cm wide and 6cm tall. I sketched and erased maybe ten different unicorns - you can see how faded the printing started to get - until I finally got the right one. Making things tiny really isn't as easy as I thought it would be; but I like how this little one is hopping and prancing to the fa-la-la-la.
I drew this adorable seahorse on a scrap piece of scribbled-on graph paper (my son's scribbling). I used an image I found on google as a rough guide and changed it up a bit. She's going to a fancy dress party, using a spiral seashell as a horn.
I added shimmer water colour sea weed (and I'm still not sure whether I ruined it or not by having some of the leaves go in front of the seahorse).
This is a tiny playing card from an incomplete old board game my mum saved at work - playing cards and game pieces make great foundations and/or additions for mixed media projects. I gave the fish a horn, used a shimmer gel pen for details and a scale pattern on the background, forgetting that gel pen won't ever dry on the surface of the playing card. It smudges a little bit every time I touch it...
I used a We Are Memory Keepers "link punch" to attach the card to the page; just for something a bit different.
I adore this winged rainbow unicorn! It's another one of my daughter's unfinished and discarded works of art. I coloured it with my shimmer paints and glued it to this uneven spread in my journal. I really like how it just happened to fit on there so perfectly.
I cut images that go across the fold in half, by the way. It makes it much easier to adhere them securely, it adds less bulk to the center of the page and it's not as likely to peel off at the center when the page is turned over and over.
This was totally stealing my daughter's idea - haha!
You know; the German word for 'unicorn' is Einhorn. (Ein means 'one' which makes a unicorn a "one-horn".)
The German word Ei means 'egg'. So my daughter said there should be a unicorn that hatches from an egg and it would be an Ei-nhorn - haha!
I totally had to use that...
(The shadow of the horn is probably not at all in the right place but I don't care.)
I had to use another one of the cool images from my toddler's picture book. This species of horned bird is called Peachpecker and they feed mostly on peaches and apricots but also damsons or plums once they are ripe later in the summer and early autumn.
I'll be back with the next batch as soon as I can!
Lots of love! And unicorns... xxx