A Year of Mary : Wild and precious life

I shared a warm up lesson for this class HERE, and have finally managed to complete January's offering. Working with Mary Oliver's poem The Summer Day which contains perhaps her most famous quote.

I really love the sketched version before all the colour is added

Tombow markers and iridescent medium for the roses

Effy demonstrated tombow markers for the face as well, but I prefer to use acrylics, clear gesso, and then blended pencils.  

I think this could be lovely as a card and I could add different found words so remembered to take a photo before I added my quote

Very happy with how she turned out

Effy's version is on her blog HERE. And recently I saw this on FB which I think is too good not to share : 

Effy Wild is doing "A Year of Mary" as a monthly lesson exclusively on her Patreon at the $5 (speed painting) or $10 (full length tutorial and PDF) per month levels. Lessons are released mid-month. See all my art from this class HERE.