Work in progress

 This is a start of my painting from sketch to finished look.   The easiest part sometimes is the pencil sketch to get started. Then the question is what to do with it? How to color? acrylic paints or watercolors or oil?I decided to go for the watercolors.. I worked on her face, trying to keep the brush colors light... then I added some collage pieces and pictures. I had found a cool picture in a magazine of a bird sitting on a group of flowers. It was just the right size, so I used it for the top of her dress on her neck, with the little bird peeking out.More collage for the dress with cut out pieces. The wings were some old pieces of music that I placed together to make them full.  In the old hymnal, I found the song titled, "Wonderful Grace" so that became her name, Grace...Next I used watercolor crayons to go over the background. After they were drawn on, I used my water brush to activate the color and cover the background..I decided to put the flower in her hair instead of having her crown.. so I painted that on in those same soft colors... Highlighted the bird and dress with similar colors.Almost finished at this point, I added some more details that are kind of hard to tell here, but white stenciled dots were put around the background. Ink pad was used around the edges to age it... and a few stamps of random letters were used .I think Grace has become her final self...I hope you enjoyed the process with me. Linked with Sunday Sketches hereGo take a look at all the art if you have time...Have a wonderful day,Love,Jane