The Wind Chimes

Finally!!! I have had this work in my "projects" folder for over a month!

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In honor of the summer months ahead, and "Midsummer" I have finally finished my little wind chime fairy.

$Moonbeam13 encourages the Gallery Directors not to forget we are also artists, as such, about a month ago she was encouraging us to create, I started this. I was afraid my muse had packed up and left town since I seem to start so many things and I don't have the extra imagination to finish it. I feel better now that this is done and I have seen this vision through.

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In my backyard I have at least 5 sets of wind chimes, I love chimes one night a while back I was sitting in my yard watching this very set of chimes move back and forth without the wind blowing. It made me think that perhaps in a different reality or parallel realm there are fairies swinging from them. For over a month I thought about how I would put this on canvas to show my idea and vision.

I took a photo of the chimes in a different part of my yard from where they normally are, thanks to my friend Andrew who held the chimes, and used that as a base for the background, I repainted everything, my backyard leaves are not nearly as intricate or pretty! lol

I rendered out a fairy using Poser 7 (which is a 3D program) using V4 and then repainted most of her.

Roughly 35-40 hours from start to finish. 75% hand painted, the rest is a 3D render and the base was a photo - but you can't see any more of the photo its completely covered with my paint work.

Thanks for looking, enjoy!

^{faint blurry bits of foliage at the bottom were made using 1 of ~rebelkitty's foliage brushes}