Elisa wanted me to paint her a unicorn painting (she is really into unicorns right now) and so I figured it would be a great time to brush up (haha get it?) on my painting skills. I had a 16x 20 canvas that I had painted purple (obvisouly that painting didn't turn out) hanging around so I thought it would make an ok background for the unicorn. I googled "unicorn coloring pages" and I liked this particular unicorn best. I enlarged the unicorn and printed it out and then transferred it onto the canvas. Then I got to painting! I like to start with the hardest parts first, that way I don't get burned out. Therefore, I started with the rainbow hair. It wasn't so hard as it was tedious. Even with doing one color for several strands at a time, it still took forever. To keep myself from getting too bored with doing the hair, I worked on the body intermittently. I love how the unicorn turned out! I let Elisa pick out the saying. She said she wanted "Be Magical Like a Unicorn", only to change her mind after I had painted the words on. Too late! I regret this, but I painted a bunch of flowers (obviously) around the unicorn because I thought it needed "something else". Well that "something else" certainly was not meant to be those flowers. I think they make the painting look too busy. I should have painted the words first, and then decided if it needed "something else". I think it would have looked fine with just the words and nothing else. Part of me wants to paint over all the flowers with purple, but Elisa says she likes them so I'll just leave them for now. I was all done when Elisa dictated something else: the unicorn needs "magic" coming out of her horn. I honored her demand and painted some squigglies (who's to say magic doesn't look like white painted squigglies??). I found a white frame on clearance for $6 at Walmart and hung it on her wall. Done and done!
It says "I Love you. You are Not Done I whant you to Make Magic comeing out of the uinqcorens horn Love Elis [sic, sic, sic]
Beautiful painting! The flowers look great, too! Very nice lettering. I think it's perfect. Elisa is lucky to have an artistic mommy who can draw and paint anything for her!
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