The Wings of Freedom

"Birds have wings, Souls have dreams"....Anonymous

With that, I will like to present my next picture quilling project which I named as "The Wings of Freedom", the freedom of soul, the freedom to fulfill our dream in our own way.

The steps are as follows:

1) The background is created on a 6/8 inches softly textured card stock paper using umber black acrylic paint from the brand camel.
2) Yellow, orange red and green are chosen as theme colors.
3) The fist step towards the picture quilling is to take an impression on the card stock. As the background is very dark pencil tracing or impression will not work in this case. Another way to do this is to cut out the picture (printed on an A4 sized paper) finely with a long tipped scissors and paste it on the background within a defined area.

The picture is finely cut and pasted on the project background

4) The next set of steps includes working on the outline using white and light green text strips (from A1 Crafts) each of 3 mm width.

Completed outlining of the picture

5) Once the outline of the silhouette with text paper strips is completed, normal standard weight yellow and orange-red paper strips (from dimensions crafts) of 3 mm width again, are used to fill up the inner areas with the beehive pattern.

Beehive filling is going on

6) In parallel, set of Malysian flowers in yellow and orange color theme are created separately on silicone glue base and are kept for drying. Few light green leaves in marquise shape (with 4 inches, 3 mm wide paper strips) are also made and arranged below the picture as shown below.

Here comes the completed picture and one from the side view as well.

"If dreams of flying are the last hope of freedom, I will pray for wings with my last breath".. Steven Erikson.

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