The final effect

I took some more pictures today of the Crash Test Daughter in all her bruised up glory. My eldest daughter and her boyfriend looked at her last night and they just stood there and giggled. So I guess it works! Here's two more photos of her and a description of how I painted her.

I actually found some photos on the internet of interesting bruises and printed them out to use as a color guide. I used dye-na-flow fabric paints again (thank you so much Patti Culea for introducing me to them - Patti is one of my inspirations). I started with a dot of yellow as the center of the bruise, then did a ring of magenta, followed by two different purples, one darker than the other and leaning more towards blue. I also used a dab of green on a couple but it's actually too bright of a green. For her black eye I used periwinkle mixed with some micro pearl Pearl-Ex powder. The Pearl-Ex gives her shiner some shine! I also used a little magenta below the eye and some of the blue-purple above the eye and along the nose. As you look at this picture you can see that her name really fits her ... Oblivious!



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Here's her back. I must not have had the fabric wet enough on one arm because the colors didn't bleed as well as I would have liked and the lines are quite obvious. I imagine a lot of these bruises won't show when she's dressed but I'm going to try for skimpy clothing so I can show them as much off as possible. Or else what's the point, eh?