Asked a friend for inspiration and she told me to try rainbow butterflies! This time around I decided to doodle them out and paint them by hand. I tried to make it look like an line of butterflies swirling out from my thumb, and just had fun painting!
I really wanted these colorful butterflies to stand out, so I did them over a base of
OPI Alpine Snow. After getting a general idea of where I wanted the butterflies, I painted in the gradients with a small brush. I didn't do the same style of gradient on each butterfly - some are horizontal gradients and others are radial gradients. They do all use the same colors, though!
Fuchsia:
Revlon Raspberry Scone
Purple:
Sephora by OPI Who's Spinning Tonight?
Blue:
Color Club Chelsea Girl
Green:
Essie The More the Merrier
Yellow:
Morgan Taylor Doo Wop
Orange:
ORLY Cheeky
Red:
Essie Hip-anema
After painting my butterfly gradients, I used a small micron pen to draw in the details on the wings. I then added small white acrylic paint dots to the edges of each wing. As a last touch, I used
ORLY Mirror Mirror to add drop shadows to the butterflies.
Colors Used:
OPI Alpine Snow
Revlon Raspberry Scone
Sephora by OPI Who's Spinning Tonight?
Color Club Chelsea Girl
Essie The More the Merrier
Morgan Taylor Doo Wop
ORLY Cheeky
Essie Hip-anema
ORLY Mirror Mirror
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