Post submissions here!

Metina offered to let us do the step-by-step on a thigh(or back) & then post the final pic on the belly.... see if that's ok?
Post the pic anyway... we want to see it!

This is what i did yesterday evening! My sister in law is 40 weeks pregnant she actually had to deliver yesterday!
But i had a change to paint her belly again so i did it and this is the result













The tools i used were: the wolfe brothers sponge and the painted areas with royal majestic 2 and 6 roud.
The colors the backroud is the metallic pink and purple partyexplosin and the white dfx.The rose is a mix of the pink metallic partyexplosion and the white dfx and mixing with a little black dfx for the shadow.
The green is dfx light green with a little black dfx and the baby is kryolan skincolor and the brown dfx shadow for the eyes nose etc.

very lovely!

Beautitul

wow. I haven't been to this thread in a while. Great jobs everyone!!

Anita- I love the hand holding. SUCH a clever idea.

I'll have my submission in right before the deadline. I can't wait to see everyones!!!!!!

Adinda your bellies are amazing! Do you paint on canvas as well? It looks like you are really good at that too

thanks but no i never painted before i was actually very bad when i had drawing lessons at scool !
But now it's going quit well!

totally awesome squirt! Love those turtles from Finding Nemo!

Love the baby/flower adinda! Wow, 24 hours later she had the baby? Was the paint even off yet

Wow!! That it beautiful!!

Used Wolfe black and white for outlines and highlights. Using all DFX colors: lime green, green, pink, fuschia, red, orange, yellow, golden rod, light blue, blue, dark blue.

Step 1: Outline design
Step 2: fill in the leaves and grass
Step 3: fill in the tree
Step 4: fill in pooh, tigger, piglet, and eyore
Step 5: detail piglet and eyore
Step 6: outline tigger and pooh
Step 7: fill in poohs shirt and tigger's stripes
Step 8: Make white daisys and add a little more grass blades
Step 9: Make the honey pot
Step 10: add bees
Step 11: make acorns and make the child's name (Jayden)

so nice!...must have taken long?

about 3 hours b/c we took lots of breaks then she had dinner as well

very nice!!!

By the way my sister in law is still pregnant!!

All the designs are so beautiful!!! I'm
Good Job everybody, I hope someday I can be able to that.

Mirandas wrote:All the designs are so beautiful!!! I'm
Good Job everybody, I hope someday I can be able to that.

All it takes is paint & a willing belly

Anita, that is totally fantastic! Perfect in every way. You rock!!

Thanks Erica!

Psalmbook wrote:

Mirandas wrote:All the designs are so beautiful!!! I'm
Good Job everybody, I hope someday I can be able to that.

All it takes is paint & a willing belly

True! haha! I'm lacking confidence in that belly department..The canvas can be really big!!

I'd never painted a belly till last month, but grabbed at the opportunity when I had it. It's like face painting, we all had to start somewhere. Now... if I could just get someone to pay me for it....

I decided to make it again on a practicepad!...what a disaster...it's totally nothing like skin...it's so much easier on skin...but I tried to make it look alike, so I could enter my step-by-step ed hardy bellypaint of which I am so proud off...

1. make outlining with FX white with a round no 5
2. sponge background with Superstar silver and fill in white parts
3. fill in the roses, snake, leaves and heart with all FX colours and artycakes leave and the purple-lightpurple-golden-white one with chisel and artybrush
4. fill in the black parts and outline everything in black
5. shading in black and highlighting in white and finally the letters in black FX using the round no 5

Michelle, I have recently added bellies to my services so I've been doing a ton of research and seeing what other people have painted to get a feel for the direction I want to go with it. Out of EVERYTHING that I have seen, your belly is by far my favorite. I love it!!!

I really love the belly, though am wondering why a mom to be would want skulls and snakes. I guess it takes all kinds. Thanks for the wonderful step by step. It truley shows the layers and what goes into making such an intricate design!

-Metina

Michelle, I am in agreement! Of all the bellies I've looked at this is by far my favorite one! I'm glad you found a way to get it into the challenge.

Metina wrote:I really love the belly, though am wondering why a mom to be would want skulls and snakes. I guess it takes all kinds. Thanks for the wonderful step by step. It truley shows the layers and what goes into making such an intricate design!

-Metina

thanks...this lady was just crazy about Ed Hardy and I must say really the type for a skull... she even had an ed hardy diperbag...